The other view is that VCs like to throw money at these projects to harm bitcoin so their side-shitcoin investments look better.

Not really. It's the infinite money glitch. You convince VCs that your soft fork is coming. It never comes, but you have a few million bucks for salaries and "development" as well as a propaganda machine to attempt to convince the world that your soft fork is coming. Paul Storc does the same shit lo...

That was another thing I was thinking, just to have fiat prices, but then I thought: Would be amazing to just add sats for extra spicy haha