Bitcoins primary value and innovation is in providing an alternative to the state imposed fiat monopoly which is a monopoly over MoE. There are plenty of speculative commodities all with their armies of touts talking up their potential value. But to provide an alternative to the state imposed monopoly over MoE is Bitcoins fundamental underlying value - to mistake its value as a speculative commodity is to fall into the most obvious trap of those who want it captured and controlled and NOT used as a MoE. Bitcoin has been consistently and very vigorously obstructed from being used as a MoE. In many countries its use as a payments protocol is outright banned. In the liberal western democracies CG taxes act to effectively make use as a MoE such a burden that very few businesses or consumers have adopted it for MoE. As long as Bitcoin is contained within a safe narrative of it being a speculative commodity it has been captured and controlled- without many even realising it.

Nonsense. Yes it is open source code but it is clearly designed with certain intent and objectives. Those objectives are clearly stated in the white paper- you should read it. It states very directly the intent is to provision censorship resistant P2P payments protocol. Sure that intent can be slyly and determinedly diverted and obstructed via tax impositions and bankers refusing to service businesses who accept Bitcoin as a MoE and by establishing ETFs and KYC and by only providing banking to a small select number of CEXes thereby preventing growth of DEXes. Do not be so naive to think the legacy fiat debt slavery bankers cartel is not working constantly to slyly undermine Bitcoins challenge to their state backed fiat monetary payments hegemony.