Nowhere in the Bitcoin whitepaper does it mention BTC being a store of value, an inflation hedge, recession proof, digital gold, a geopolitical hedge, or a retirement asset. These narratives were 100% invented by maxis to push the scheme on more naive retail sheep, because the entire system depends on constant inflows to keep the price propped up so early holders can extract more fiat. Satoshi explicitly described Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer system for online payments. That was almost 2 decades ago. Today it is slow, obsolete, expensive to use, and practically irrelevant in real commerce. So yes, when I say Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and functions purely as a speculative gambling instrument, that is a fact, not an opinion.(Jacob King)