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It would be a big mistake to release a system that works against banks/fiat and publicly advertise it that way if you ever want people to join and support it.
The message he left in the Genesis block says a lot about his intentions. He didn't just randomly choose the article - it was chosen for a reason. When I say "fiat", I am talking about banks as well. I think banks are one of the main parts of how fiat works, and Satoshi's system was created in a
trustless manner - something that eliminates the need of banks. Had Satoshi directly mentioned the system was anti-governmental and anti-banks, Bitcoin would have failed terribly.
Cherry-picking.
I find it interesting how you like to attribute meanings to a message that can be interpreted in a lot of ways but at the same time, you totally avoid a post from him where he is explicitly claiming those were never his intentions. The second part is even funnier, so the message in the genesis block clearly speaks out his intentions of being against banks but at the same time, he hasn't mentioned this anywhere else because that would have led to the failure of bitcoin.
It's like going all dress up with signs 10 feet long to a parade but claims you're not taking art because you're not shouting slogans.
Abstract: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
Yeah, just like a car is a competitor to public transportation, just like a farmer's market is a competitor to a chain store, just like how you cooking at home, you're making KFC go bankrupt. It's a system that would allow payments between p2p, it's not a system that would make centralized solutions disappear.
Maybe I'm being too harsh when I'm calling Bitcoin "against" them - perhaps calling it an alternative to them is a better wording. But even this way, it's still considered a potential competitor. And banks surely aren't happy about competitors.
Yeah, competitors..
What could banks not like about this, can you please tell me?
They are losing 400k transactions a day from the 100 million only Visa does in the US alone.
And ironically, a lot of those 400k are the result of people wiring money via a bank to exchange.
Have you ever thought about how much banks are making from all those transfers from all the people sending and getting fiat?
Cultism is one thing, reality is another.