To the guys like me, it's still the latter who're visible, things like the Satellite network and then their Lightning implementation are what keeps them in the line of sight.
right.
when Blockstream just invested money in development or infrastructure (the satellite network or c-lightning), they did a good job. When they try to do anything that actually turns a profit, (Lightning Labs did the same with Lightning Loop), they have a tendency to end up alienating more or less everyone
really, the most profitable way to invest in the Bitcoin is to accept it for existing business models (as PwC are here), or to invest directly in BTC as an asset. Any successful new business model is going to be something that's pro-competition, the economy all over the world is currently over-saturated with monopolies and oligopolies as it is.
Bitcoin breaks up established business monopolies, trying to use it to create new monopolies (as Blockstream and Lightning Labs tried to with Liquid and Lightning Loop) just causes people to say "but surely there's some innovative way around these wannabe mafiosas", which there always will be. Getting around bullies to level the playing field is the whole point of Bitcoin.
