The King Daddy still remains, and is still thriving. 🕶
yes, true, but, be honest, where is the "alternative financial system" based on bitcoin?
It's possible that just sending coins from point A to point B would suffice (and being a putative 'store of value'), but Satoshi envisioned bitcoin banks, if I recall correctly.
His vision was everyone having the power to be their own bank with no-one else being involved, thereby being protected from the scum sucking bankers.
13 years have passed, everyone got scars, but there is no "system", would you agree?
At this point, i am not sure if it would be possible as many were trying and so far nothing major had happened. Maybe soon

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BTW, it is not the fault of bitcoin itself, just human folly and greed (and infatuation with supposedly more 'advanced' shitcoins).
Plus, we need a mechanism that explicitly prevents fake bitcoin 'printing'. No entity should be able to say that they have bitcoin if they don't have a "physical one", and if not, then, as someone said here (sorry can't recall the name) it is "stonks 2.0".
EDIT: btw, here is an interesting article suggesting that we should increase our bitcoin usage and not only focus on hodling:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/for-bitcoin-to-be-true-digital-cashBeen saying the bolded since the first "institutional" involvement but always got shouted down because "thats ngu Br0".
But of course it isn't, it is exactly as I have been repeating for years and I will once again post the quote.

Diluting the 21 million is their
ONLY real attack vector and people not keeping their own keys are playing into their hands.
