- Bitcoin and Bitcoin's price are two different things. According to Satoshi's Vision BTC is meant to be a digital peer to peer currency; not a store of value which contradicts today's investors. .....
What are your thoughts?
It's hard to answer your question, but as you mentioned, you are looking for opinions that are definitely going to be varied. I will say it will be easy if we have some interviews with Satoshi about BTC. But Whitepaper does that work. And you have pointed out a good point here. But this is not something new in discussion.
If Satoshi is still alive (who knows), then I think he would definitely not think that BTC would have gone this far, as according to a factoid about Satoshi:
I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.
This indicates one thing for sure, he was not sure that either BTC would work. But I think BTC works, and if BTC works, then it will grow more, and that's for sure.
And you said, BTC and BTC price are two things, and according to Satoshi, it means p2p, but I can say something for sure:
Satoshi must not see the taproot, or lighting network coming. And he also does not see ordinals coming. And he also has not seen coming that people will start to use it as a store of value. But the thing is, BTC has performed unexpectedly and made many people rich too. I hope you get my version of the answer.