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I fear we are going into a direction where one day (if not even now) we'll be hostage of these big players overtaking the community ideals despite any decentralization.
These people are here to make money. They care zero about africans or privacy and they can dictate where the network has to go.
These people are not with us.
They are against us.
We are not the same.
What do you think about?
This happens to everything, look at video games, at first it was the thing of computer experts and similar minded people, then they went mainstream and now the spirit that initially fueled video games is completely gone, then it is not surprising that something similar is happening to bitcoin too, since the majority of the people buying bitcoin now, only do so because they want to obtain an economic benefit, and they could care less about the ideals that it represents.