It is quite possible that the new financial elite of tomorrow is forming right now. The future is, of course, open, and we are still in a relatively innocent phase. Everyone is collecting and holding nicely. But at some point, the games will begin. 'How do I get my hands on other people's coins?'

Similar patterns to the gold rush are to be expected. First, everyone is mining and collecting, and here and there someone will be robbed of their gold. But everything is still relatively restrained; one can simply protect oneself.

But then politics begins. The politicization. Lobbies are being formed. For example, the MicroStrategy lobby, which wants to influence legislation to get hold of other people's coins. Some complicated, tricky games.

It will not make the world better immediately. I fear it will first make things really complicated. Human beings are human beings. Motives and behaviors do not change.

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So true.. I was thinking along the lines of..

I actually went further to think.. in the era of machines.. we won’t be able to operate them with oil.. we will probably need something a-political/ neutral bits and bytes that register as value and the machine performs a set of actions in the real world..

Couldn’t agree more. Bitcoiners need to be ready for these games.