11-01-2022, 12:56 PM
is the dream really dead?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I don't post here much anymore, but it's weird to come back to the sub today and see what it's like right now. </p> <p>It has become pretty obvious that a <em>significant</em> amount of people here are only interested in getting rich. And that makes me a little sad, because cryptocurrency has a lot more to offer than that. </p> <p>I envisioned a world where the people had managed to take monetary control back from the government, and private industry. Instead, we'll end up using CBDCs and centralized, company-specific bastard "cryptos" that will only work with specific retailers.</p> <p>I assume Satoshi is dead, but I kinda wonder what he'd think watching BTC and the others that followed in its steps as they're reduced into nothing more than vessels for more pointless wealth hoarding.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NullDonut"> /u/NullDonut </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yiqenk/is_the_dream_really_dead/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yiqenk/is_the_dream_really_dead/">[comments]</a></span>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I don't post here much anymore, but it's weird to come back to the sub today and see what it's like right now. </p> <p>It has become pretty obvious that a <em>significant</em> amount of people here are only interested in getting rich. And that makes me a little sad, because cryptocurrency has a lot more to offer than that. </p> <p>I envisioned a world where the people had managed to take monetary control back from the government, and private industry. Instead, we'll end up using CBDCs and centralized, company-specific bastard "cryptos" that will only work with specific retailers.</p> <p>I assume Satoshi is dead, but I kinda wonder what he'd think watching BTC and the others that followed in its steps as they're reduced into nothing more than vessels for more pointless wealth hoarding.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NullDonut"> /u/NullDonut </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yiqenk/is_the_dream_really_dead/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yiqenk/is_the_dream_really_dead/">[comments]</a></span>