People absolutely would switch away from bitcoin if something better came along.<p>If people would rather use something else to trade with, bitcoin stops being potentially widely used in trade.<p>If bitcoin stops being potentially widely used in trade, it stops being a potentially good store of value.<p>If it stops being a potentially good store of value, it stops being something people want to speculate on.<p>If people don&#x27;t want to speculate on it, the price crashes.<p>In other words, the whole value proposition of bitcoin rests on the idea that it is useful for trade.<p>In other words, that you&#x27;d rather use it than at least one of the set:<p>{credit cards, cash, paypal, regular wire transfers, wire transfers involving foreign currency exchange}.<p>That said---I have not read the Bitcoin-NG paper yet but others are saying it is highly centralized, which would make it a non-starter.