If you've dabbled in the cryptocurrency world, you might know of bitcoin as a "store of value," and ether (the Ethereum Network token) as the "smart contract thing."

Yes, you can build cool stuff on Ethereum. You can write "smart" and programmable contracts. You can mint NFTs. You can create entirely new decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems on Ethereum and come out with your own tokens if you wanted to.

But ultimately, none of that cool technology that's sitting on top of the Ethereum blockchain or any other blockchain project matters in the long-run. Why? Because the next generation of the internet should and will be built on Bitcoin instead.