🔥 Whoa… this one actually hits different.

Ran Neuner — Crypto Banter founder and one of Bitcoin’s loudest, most consistent bulls for over a decade — just dropped something I never expected to hear from him.

For the first time in 12+ years, he’s openly questioning Bitcoin’s core “store of value” thesis.

In his Feb 16 post he said: when tariffs, currency chaos and fiscal stress hit, this was supposed to be Bitcoin’s moment to shine like digital gold.

Instead… money ran to actual gold.

Even with spot ETFs, brokerages, and full institutional access now available.

He points out the narrative already flipped once (from “peer-to-peer electronic cash” to “digital gold” after the 2017 block-size wars). That SoV story became the whole industry’s rallying cry.

But now that Bitcoin is “inside the system,” Ran feels the fire and community energy has faded. Retail participation is near multi-year lows, and even heavy hitters like Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy buying billions haven’t been enough to prop the price.

Coming from a guy who’s defended BTC through everything… this public doubt actually means something.

So real talk — is Bitcoin still the ultimate store of value, just taking longer than we thought with institutions?

Or is the narrative starting to crack?

Drop your honest take below 👇 I’m reading every reply.

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