"On the one hand, these are amazing developments that validate blockchain technology and its potential as a currency system, however, they are also drifting us away from the original vision of a decentralised monetary system. In February 2009, Satoshi wrote on a P2P online forum:

'The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work…but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust'”

Taken from the article linked below, worth reading. Do you think the emergence of banking and corporate digital currencies will take away from the original cryptocurrencies or can they live in harmony?

https://medium.com/@marcus_61942/decentralised-cryptocurrencies-vs-digital-currencies-3811e36cc94f

"With banking institutions investigating digital coins that could one day find consumer use, we might be losing the highly important decentralised and trustless nature currently attributed to cryptocurrencies. The same applies for large-scale corporations such as Facebook, people would be trusting a company responsible for the grossly dishonest Cambridge Analytica Scandal whose CEO described his trusting users as “dumb f**ks”, with vast amounts of payment data."

Read an interesting article linked below, curious to hear everyone's opinions on how the industry is unfolding?

https://medium.com/@marcus_61942/decentralised-cryptocurrencies-vs-digital-currencies-3811e36cc94f?postPublishedType=initial