The greatest problem with Bitcoin is lack of governance... Peter Todd, core Bitcoin dev, said:
>“[We need] something like coin voting ‒ that could give you much better feedback on what people actually want. Right now, we don’t really have a good way of getting feedback.”
Little does he know that it already exists and is now underway:
> https://voting.decred.org/
DCR stakeholders are now voting with their coins for Lightning Network integration , and paid for voting (1+ DCR per vote)
DCR will keep evolving and integrating whatever technological improvement it needs through hard fork voting; it's like the Borg of crypto
How can Bitcoin compete with this in the long term?
Bitcoin: slow, high fees, can't get any tech. improvement cause miners can't agree on anything
Decred: soon INSTANT transactions, low fees, and continual evolution, self-funding, perpetual advancement through hard fork voting (integrating best features of other coins)