The mere fact that manipulative beartwats have been able to keep the BTC price under certain kinds of wraps in recent years, I really am not going to go along with an presumptions that they have been successful in taming dee cornz or that they have gotten this shit under any kind of a meaningful control.
So your going along with ideas that bitcoin has been tamed or mellowed out seems to be giving into what the powers that be would like you to believe. I am not going to concede such grounds to those manipulative twats.. .. since it also plays along with the bitcoin is a mature asset class framework.. and that has been baloney pushing down our throats ever since I got into bitcoin.
You know what, I thought about this before. What if my mind is mostly clear from their manipulation but there is a 5 to 10 percent of fog they successfully put in there that I can not see through and it is fueling these thoughts. You may be right, maybe they have a little superficial control but not too much of it and not threatening in any significant way to Bitcoin.
I believe it will be a partially controlled, partially not situation that plays out similar to 'tainted' versus 'clean' Bitcoin. Try to work with Third Parties and they will probably start looking for a 'taint'. Work Peer to Peer and the other side does not care about the nonsense concept of 'taint' because Peers take each Bitcoin as fungible. As they should.
The partial control they will succeed in comes from regulation, laws, more 'steps against crime', more intrusiveness, more Billionaires telling the sheep when to buy Bitcoin and when not to, leaders telling us we have to show ID to prevent crime. Average people do not seem to think with their mind, there is more control and surveillance than ever before in our history and yet the crime statistics are up for most countries.
They will succeed in their partial control as in the regulations will exist and a large number of people will listen to what they say. But once you take the surface control off, the rest of it can not be controlled and just like the 'taint' situation I described above, not listening any more requires zero effort. Take your Bitcoin and do what ever you want. It is as simple as that and nobody else can say no.
So you are expecting other kinds of CBDCs? Of course, there is already confusion regarding what bitcoin is and what value bitcoin brings, so there are already more and more ways to attempt to channel everyone into KYC AML channeling of our coins... and so you think that BTC's price is going to become suppressed due to these efforts?
I am expecting Bitcoin to become worth more due to their efforts, not less. I expect sharp declines from time to time when things we do not like happen, but I do not expect it to die, to never recover or to be suppressed. The almost entire World seems to be ready for their own versions of 'CBDCs', although I would argue they are nothing more than a Centralized system pretending to be better than any Currency that ever was or will be, including Bitcoin. I believe The United States, The United Kingdom, the European Union, they are all almost ready to push forward their own versions of dystopian Shit coin.
Of course, bitcoin is a world - wide phenomena, yet I am not denying the growth of ongoing battles and confusion regarding various ways to attempt to neuter bitcoin...and so yeah, even long holding bitcoiners are going to sell their coins to cash out from whatever number go up that they had already gotten.. and financial sovereignty is a bit more of a complicated way of holding coins, since many of us are likely going to have to figure out ways to separate whatever coins that we have.. and, yeah, I am not denying those various kinds of battles to be upcoming.. .. and several of us will likely continue to HODL through these matters and yeah maybe sometimes we are going to be persecuted for holding coins.,.. and/or not sufficiently disclosing our coins... ongoing battles and stress... including others disclosing that they got coins from us... so we might send coins to some relative and then the relative will say that they got their coins from us... .. governments will not give up control easily and wanting to monitor and take away whatever privacy and freedoms that we might perceive ourselves to have.. .sure.
At least you are thinking of these scenarios. Regular people will stay hours in line for their new Shit coin and will be giving up their Freedom with a smile on their face believing they are part of some sort of significant progress of society.
And, of course many of us are going to ongoingly want developers to be working on various privacy tools without getting locked up.. or otherwise persecuted... so maybe more and more developers might have to work under anonymity?
I am honestly surprised there are not more developers working under anonymity already. The signs are more than clear that Privacy will be considered a crime unless the State can be the third pair of ears and eyes. The consequences are already showing. Either they do not care or they are not realizing they are in danger too.
Yeah. How you going to stop normies from doing that?.. even the various blow ups around FTX did not teach lessons about the negative aspects of custodians.
You can not stop them. They are being told but they will not listen, the general population will continue to choose what is more comfortable and convenient and custodians are exactly that. I have seen a worrying number of Members on this Forum believing Michael Saylor will never sell any Bitcoin at all and will only keep buying, forever. Normies are delusional.
