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A decentralized peer-to-peer cash system as a movement against the (banking) elite has become a centralized and 'propagandized' "story of value" for the (banking) elite.

Satoshi Nakamoto has great dreams, but basic human greed has struck again.

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Bitcoin was about greed from the beginning, the myth that it was somehow altruistic is just that. It was obvious from the start how bitcoin was setup, the design encodes the intentions of the designer. You can say it's supposed to be a payment system but it is mostly an experiment in game theory and behavioral finance.

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