no one knows where it is going,no one even knows where it came from.
Are you telling me that the FED is more transparent? You see, it does not matter who Satoshi is. What would it help you if you knew that the actual name of Satoshi is Enrico Palazzo from Modena/Italy? What matters is that the Bitcoin spec is completely open and that implementations are OSS. You are in the position to know literally EVERYTHING about Bitcoin. Being ignorant is your choice!
About where it is going: That is indeed what it distinguishes Bitcoin from the Dollar or the Euro where we have certainty:
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero."
(Voltaire)