A #cryptocurrency Freedom Manifesto — Is it Too Late for #bitcoin?
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A lot has happened since Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin in a white paper in 2008 following the financial crisis. Part of his motivation at the time was to have an electronic based currency that no one government or central bank or institution had control over.Since then, through numerous busts and boom cycles, even leading to the major run up in prices and ICOs in 2017 to the crash of 2018, the crypto world has lost some of that idealism, and the governments have significantly started to encroach on this idealized vision.It’s not the fault of the pioneers or the technologists, but at first the venture capitalists and then later the wall street types converging on #blockchain and the tokens. As the amount of money poured into, made, and lost in this space has gotten larger, (...)