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On the one hand, these are amazing developments that validate blockchain technology and its potential as a currency system, however, they are also drifting us away from the original vision of a decentralised monetary system. In February 2009, Satoshi wrote on a P2P online forum:
'The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust thats required to make it work
but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust'
Taken from the article linked below, worth reading. Do you think the emergence of banking and corporate digital currencies will take away from the original cryptocurrencies or can they live in harmony?
https://medium.com/@marcus_61942/decentralised-cryptocurrencies-vs-digital-currencies-3811e36cc94fBlockchain technology doesn't always translate into decentralised cryptocurrencies. It can be applied in a variety of ways, including by corporations to streamline their own internal processes, or develop their own centrally backed coins. There is nothing wrong with that.
It's just that these coins most likely will not pose any significant advantages to existing decentralised cryptocurrencies. People may get hyped up like a launch of a token from an institution will change everything, but they are two separate entities altogether that aren't necessarily related.
I also don't see it as "drifting away" from decentralisation. The people will benefit the most from bitcoin's utility will continue to use it; it's not like they will cease to do so simply because some company issued their own blockchain token.