Quote from: Chrysostomus on Today at 02:07:24 PM

"...potentially threatening its decentralized nature."

I need to disagree with that ending, since it is flawed. No amount of scandal, irregularities, or fraudulent practices done by people and their companies can threaten the decentralized nature of the BTC P2P Network. What greedy people do with Bitcoin does not define what BTC is at the digital core.

It's true, we could rather talk about autonomy, in the sense that the value of bitcoin would not grow autonomously (due to its increasing scarcity) because its price would be too manipulated.