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Maybe you are right and the whole thing was a pump-n-dump. If so, I'm glad I dumped some already because there is every possibility that many people will be enthusiastic enough about a 'real' Bitcoin to get one going once the original has proven to be a hoax from the get-go.
Nice try, but that's not what I said. Bitcoin can survive, be useful, remain significantly better than the legacy financial system, and be valuable without your idealistic and unrealistic notion of "decentralization"; ie, the blocksize can be raised (at least up to some conservative interpretation of Nielsen's law) without killing bitcoin.