Why the Bitcoin ecosystem is where it's at is primarily due to Casey creating Runes. In hindsight, he was very jealous of the brc20 $ORDI and $SATS success and the fact that the liquidity it attracted propped Ordinals up massively. He released a flawed protocol to a non-technical audience that he had no interest in continuing to develop. I don't blame anyone for shilling or hyping Runes, because we were told that it was going to be more efficient. We had no clue that it was a flawed liquidity-sucking mess and that the dev truly didn't give a shit about its future. To be honest, at the time of the Magic Eden airdrop, it was apparent that there were huge cracks in Runes. Personally, in my mind, I said if the $ME airdrop doesn't pump this, it's over. It didn't pump it, and yes, it was over a week after the airdrop. We're now at a point almost a year later, and prices haven't moved at all; they've ranged +-30% for a year and in BTC value, they're all on a continuous downward trend. Wake the fuck up, Runes failed stop shilling sub $100k volume vapor.