SMT is so genious! The revolution of social media!
The quote at the beginning of your post is either so true and sad at the same time.
Trusting a central autority that have the power to decide the value of your wealth is just crazyness.
Bitcoin though, has value but it isn’t controlled by anyone!
Satoshi is the hero of mankind.
The problem is that it is still relatively small compared to world currencies and governments can still destroy it if they want to.
They can dump it again for sure...but there is no way to destroy it
All they need to do is control half of miners.
The 49ers could just fork indefinitely.
Well it's not all that bad since we do depend on society one way or another. It's just that it has gone out of control..