bitcoin is used by poeple all over the world,
there's a lot of small players
theirs a lot of big believers,
theirs a lot of investors,
all these poeple aren't about to disappear ..
Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant by "core". But the crux of your post seemed to be, "It doesn't mater if the core is small, so long as the core exists."
The point I'm trying to make is, this core size does matter. Not to the "core members" themselves, but to the perceptions of those you expect to come later.
If your core was say 500 individuals who owned the current 7,500,000 BTC. That would likely be viewed quite hostilely by the majority of the billion or so individuals you wish to attract to Bitcoin.
If your core was 5,000,000 individuals owning the current 7,500,000 BTC. Then the next billion adopters are less likely to view Bitcoin as benefitting the BTC rich, at the expense of the BTC poor.
