Some bitcoin believers see the price as a distraction from the cryptocurrency’s real potential transforming the global financial industry and much of the economy itself. Bitcoin believers who bought into the cryptocurrency long before its rise and fall said they believe the value is in the long-term potential of blockchain, which is the underlying concept on which bitcoin is built. A blockchain is a digital, decentralized public ledger that allows people to seamlessly trade digital currencies without having to go through a bank, essentially guaranteeing that assets can been transferred securely. Many legacy systems and also other cryptocurrencies have constant reliability issues. Bank systems can go down, causing issues with online banking and payment cards. Other cryptocurrencies have had serious reliability and security issues in recent years, including Ethereum and newer ones such as EOS. They are not really reliable. Bitcoin has proven to be extremely reliable. The last time Bitcoin had a major outage was in 2013, when the blockchain was unreliable for a few hours due to incompatible versions of the software. It was fixed swiftly and now for over 5 years Bitcoin has been operational and reliable 24/7/365.