for any new people who weren't aware, "store of value" and "hedge against inflation" were astroturfed into existence by a group of saboteurs years after the original launch

I started using this stuff when seed phrases were a new thing and people still talked about "coin days destroyed." For the first 7 or 8 years, almost nobody actually believed that Bitcoin was a store of value or a hedge against inflation. Everyone was on the same page. It was a peer to peer electronic cash system. You would only buy into the ecosystem if you wanted to send and receive payments without asking permission, or if you didn't like the idea of custodians and middlemen touching your money.

It was new people who barged into the scene and started forcing this perverted ideology. When they came in and started doing this, the OGs could tell who they were like their hair was on fire. They were forcing a meme. They are the reason why Bitcoin failed to scale properly and now most Bitcoin transactions are brokered through unnecessary middlemen and rube goldberg machines. Under their influence, the new bitcoiner thoughtlessly speaks words he doesn't understand like "decentralization" while celebrating ETFs and centralized lightning wallets.