Quote from: faaty on July 15, 2017, 11:18:26 AM

Yes, I do not believe it is decentralized. Bitcoin's anarchist days are long gone.
I used to believe that Bitcoin was the gold of the modern age. That is to say, gold is seen today as a means of storing wealth, not as a means of shopping together with the invention of money; Both by people and by central banks.
In modern times, I thought that bitcoin, a digital value based on hash power, could be seen as a means of storing wealth.

But,
A thought: the gold is a certain element in the periodic table. Throughout the ages, people have tried to make gold with alchemy, though technology has not progressed so far. The only way to get gold is mining.

Bitcoin is not. As a result, it continues to be developed by a software and core team. So after they come out, they can say that bitcoin is changed from now on. Hard fork, soft fork, segwit 1,2,3,4,5 can do everything. The bitcoin in your hand can also be split into 10 forks. Contrary to gold, they can give bitcoin any shape as they wish. Powerful states and corporations, rich people, deep powers, who can control and manipulate the world by affecting the world as if they are asking the developers of the bitch.

Bitcoin core is not in one place, but I seem to hear you say it is scattered. After all, who is more likely to have the power of mining and bitcoin if he can not afford it?

Is Bitcoin a decentralized system? On the contrary, it is necessary to think about what will evolve as a central system in which your wealth is governed.

It could be, but it's not yet. There is time to fight for our ideals, we only need express our ideas and generate discussions, like you are doing now. It's a good beginning.
It's not easy, almost all is being centralized, in my country the government want to centralize all the transactions of fiat, in favor to them and private banks, they are obligating by law to everybody have bank accounts and make almost everyting by the banking system, their target is eliminate the cash money and ensalve people to banksters, to pay them fees, interests and more, the banks will have more money to use, without paying any interest to the real owners of that money. This brings a lot of problems, in addition to loss of privacy, freedom, property rights, and a lot of more problems.
I feel alone, because people here don't have ideals or, simply, they are dumbs. I though this community could help me to fight, but I was wrong.
I miss 2012 when I started, everybode talking about god Satoshi and their ideals, but, now, money is the god and I am the atheist in middle of this church.