This article seems to me to be more of a protest against centralization. After reading the title of the thread, I expected to see an essay that sorted out the reasons why most people perceive bitcoin as a financial tool or something like that, (more reasons). Although these questions can be touched upon in the second part of your essay). In this particular case, I think we should better focus on another issue, namely how we all the same get back to basics. To the philosophy that was originally laid down, and not to its interpretations. BTW, in fact, centralized exchanges are just one of many interpretations ...