Bitcoin's lack of protocol revenue generation disqualifies it from revenue-based blockchain indexes despite its large market capitalization, signaling a structural difference in how it monetizes versus other networks.
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
Still mostly niche and specialist coverage — not yet picked up broadly by mainstream press.
"The idea was to ban for one year the integration of pictures, text, and other information not directly related to bitcoin payments. However, the concept generated a lot of discussion in the Bitcoin community and was met with opposition from many prominent Bitcoin advocates, including Michael Saylor, Adam Back and Samson Mow."
"The companies that will survive aren't the ones that abandoned crypto for AI. They're the ones that understood crypto is the infrastructure for AI and built accordingly. The companies failing are the ones that were never really building anything, just accumulating an asset and hoping appreciation would substitute for operations."
"Bitcoin (BTC) and XRP (XRP) were identified as the largest non-constituents compared with the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Asset Index. That outcome is consistent with a methodology that prioritizes protocol revenue-based eligibility and ranking."