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Today the crypto space has largely matured, the scams aren't gone, they've just all moved into the memecoin space where scamming is easier.
Bitcoin has also not lived up to expectations as much as some had hoped. There is a contingent who believes that the Bitcoin project was "hijacked" because a small group now controls the reference implementation and does not accept changes in accordance with the will of the community. These people have largely congregated around the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) project.
Others see Bitcoin's transparency as a problem. Bitcoin was always transparent, but projects such as Monero (XMR) use advanced mathematics to disguise where transactions come from and go to. Critics of Monero claim the math is too complex and it can't be relied upon.
Between OWS and now, we have won almost everything. Governments are facing the fact that they won't be able to keep printing money forever, and if they do, people will just refuse to hold it. The walls are coming down, the old guard is falling apart, and the President of the United States was elected, largely, because he has a deep personal grudge against the people who did all of this.
Bitcoin is probably going to become more and more an institutional asset, but even with this boring future it still has great significance because it will force upon banks and nations the rule that there is 21 million and not a single one more. This level of forced restraint has never been seen in history. Even under the gold standard, banks could inflate the number of gold certificates because taking physical custody was unfeasible. With Bitcoin, taking custody is trivial and nervous customers will do so at the first signs of trouble, making inflation of paper Bitcoin a recipe for flash bankruptcy.
From the OG Bitcoiner Perspective, the power to put your money in what you believe in is all that really matters. Whether it's Bitcoin, or Bitcoin Cash, Monero, Ethereum, PKT (my project), or a whole galaxy of other crypto things out there, if you believe in it, and the people who hate you can't touch it, print it, borrow it, spend it, etc... That's all that matters.
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