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Bitcoin (capital B) still is! The Bitcoin Core project (BTC) was hijacked years ago by corporate interests (Adam Back's Blockstream) and crippled to push their "second layer" solutions to the problem they themselves created.

The Bitcoin project lives on and most real users and developers moved to other projects like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Monero the same time Blockstream wrestled control of the Bitcoin Core GitHub repo.



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