When the chips are down, the community behind the project and the utility of their collective vision is the intrinsic value that underpins all blockchain projects. That's when the project survives all market cycles, highs and lows.
Community based projects have people as a lifeline and no way to self-destruct short of the everyone in the community giving up. Hype-based or marketing-based projects are dependent on hype and market conditions and when those swing, there's noone left to sacrifice and be a lifeline.
Each line of code we write
Each idea we share and discuss
Each post we make
Each person we tell
It all adds up to the incremental value.
If we stay focused on the principles and not compromise, and keep innovating, it'll be a matter of time before the momentum sucks in the fence-sitters and skeptics, just like how Bitcoin is doing now sucking in former skeptics to buy millions and announce it to the world.
Well said