Yes I am aware that we just listed this as an advantage but this sticky topic can be a big disadvantage too. It’s easy to think that an always-open market will always have desirable trades when in fact, that is simply untrue. What it can actually mean is that there are fewer parts of the day where you can execute predictable (in other words, profitable) trades.
I think Bitcoin will be a store of value/digital gold rather first and foremost because it was first to market. I don’t think it can solve practical real world problems the way other projects are aiming to and where the innovation has gone. Blockchain technology has the potential to do that by creating decentralised systems across multiple industry sectors and I fear DeFi is drawing attention away from this too much at the moment.