core have become the government that no longer need general community vote of new rules and only need the vote of the influencers of economic nodes who can bribe and blackmail mining pools into compliance... where by general users have no choice to veto a rule activation(backward compatibility trick)...
its turned the whole purpose of the invention of this currency that was suppose to be different to the fiat world, into a fiat structure of governance world with all its PR campaigns and deception by the ass kissers
we should actually be questioning the authority. scrutinising them and having ways to oppose them should they abuse their position..
bitcoiners were on the right path 2009-2014 but since then its as if too many people have been duped and stroked and ass kissed into yielding into allowing the control to gain more power.
the politics of bitcoin has changed since the olden days. and we really need to be scrutinising, highlighting, reviewing the things proposed to be changed and not just bow down all the time nor get told to shut up
if you want the volume, liquidity and high price for bitcoin, you need institutional investors. I remember time when people were only speculating when they will enter this game. And now that they have, they need regulatory compliance to stay in the game.
If you want to escape regulations, monero is pretty much only way to go now. And sure, it works and you can use it, but when cexes refuse to list it and FATF aml laws require to provide origin of the money, it just might be that every crypto outside of regulations and cryptos traded against them can't be listed to cexes. And that affects the liquidity and price.