Everything that is happening now around crypto is actually as old as the world: people are being drawn deeper into political discourse. Even the most famous and influential crypto enthusiasts are now discussing the decisions of the Federal Reserve, interest rates, Trump, and other 'politics,' trying to tie it to price movements in the market. From the outside, it looks almost comical, especially when you remember that at the root of cryptocurrency lay the idea of decentralization — the desire to break free from the control of the global financial system that has dictated the rules of money exchange between people for decades.
When Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, it was a response to the financial crisis and an attempt to create a system where people could exchange value without intermediaries like banks or governments. The idea was to transfer control into the hands of users. But since then, crypto has really accumulated new meanings: speculation, politics, hype.
I wouldn't romanticize the original idea of crypto by calling it 'freedom.' It sounds naive: true freedom is not in technologies or concepts, but in the heart. But now it's about something else.
In recent years, crowds of 'newbies' have flooded into crypto. Many of them do not understand either the basics of how blockchain works or why all of this is even needed. For them, crypto is just another 'money button,' a tempting mirage of quick and easy money. But cryptocurrency has never been about that. And it definitely wasn't about politics. Over the years of its existence, it has attracted a huge number of young, ambitious, smart, and energetic people, to whom bright futures and asset growth were recently promised from the podium. Why? Because their voices — this new 'electorate' — turned out to be too valuable for those standing on the podium.
What am I getting at? Well, not much, I just want you to think. Crypto is not about this. And if you continue to associate it with what it has never been, you will simply be led to slaughter.
Any technology, when it reaches the masses, adapts to the interests and behaviors of people. And people have always been the same: striving for power, envious, greedy, vain, and other noble qualities. Therefore, to some extent, what is happening is a natural process, and it is not at all necessary to go with the flow, being a free person.
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