Knowledge of Bitcoin certainly hasn't followed its price over the last two years; it's forever evident in the media, where you'll find countless interviews and articles with apparent financial experts and analysts.
Recently, many have taken to calling Bitcoin a store of value rather than a currency; it is not a store of value. They have called it a gamble and an investment; it is neither a slot machine or a financial investment. It has been called a threat to the world due to its energy usage; it is not.
Bitcoin is freedom. It's freedom from government. Freedom from banks. Freedom from greed. Freedom from limitations. It's true freedom in the hands of the people. Bitcoin allows the people to remove greedy annoyances that claim we need them; we do not.
Bitcoin offers various methods of consensus structure: a user is free to use a particular wallet that believes in specific changes on the Bitcoin network. They're free to run a node that conveys a particular message that's broadcast across the network for all to see. It's a voting method. A method of conveying an opinion over change and belief alongside others. Its message and opinion forever stored in the blockchain as proof of that decision; a collective of thoughts and opinions. The blockchain is a network of thought, as much as it is a history.
How many approve of a slight change within a wallet? Let's see which versions the majority of nodes are running, and what messages they're conveying. The very pools in which people mine on can also be used as a method of generating a consensus: how much hashrate in total approves of a fork? How much is approving of a different solution, instead?
These voting methods that generate an overall consensus don't just apply to Bitcoin, but cryptocurrencies as a whole; and the blockchain can be used to store that consensus and remove possibilities of conflict and uncertainty. You could quite literally host an election on a blockchain, and there could be no arguments as to who had won and whether a recount is needed.
In terms of Bitcoin's energy consumption: Bitcoin is actually doing us all a favour, for serious miners are constantly moving their farms to locations in which electricity consumption prices are cheaper, which in short results in a decrease of electricity costs in general, given energy companies do not need to increase their prices in order to generate a profit. Bitcoin is good for energy companies. Bitcoin is good for technological innovation as a whole. Its possibilities offer a wide range of physical and digital advancements: hardware and software booming in unison, once again each displaying its own agenda and opinion over the network. The beauty in that is free software will allow others to fork and branch their own versions, with their own opinions over the network. The consensus structure never ends; it simply grows stronger.
Bitcoin is no gamble, it is not a lost cause or high-risk investment that needs leadership to guide it in the right direction of profit and success. There is no right direction, the direction is whatever the people decide with the tools they've been given. Its price against a constantly fraudulent fiat currency is down to what those who use it decide it is, whether that's $10 or $1,000,000. We're not here to get rich in fiat. We're not here to bring Bitcoin to Wall Street and introduce hundreds of regulations and turn it into a mere asset. We're here to change the world in which we see it; to give power to the people and let them decide for themselves.
Bitcoin is more than a chart and the fiat it generates. Bitcoin is freedom.