What? So the top .1% of Bitcoin holders own nearly 50% of all the Bitcoin wealth?
That's nuts. I think we fiat it's like 1% own around 40% of all fiat.
Haha. In fiat, a collective of perhaps 10 real decision makers controls all of it. Including 60% of corporations, and by extension of lawmaking, almost all the rest of the business also.
But I'm gonna stick to my prediction that by Christmas 25% of Bitcoin will be owned by large banks, corps, Hedge Funds, govts, etc and over 50% in the next 18 months. And since they can't get the .1% to sell very much they're gonna have to steal a lot of it.
And to support that crazy theory look at the latest news which shows that the Silk Road Bitcoin, DPR Bitcoins and the [stolen] Gox Bitcoins, all moved within 72 hours of each other.
Astute observation. Outright stealing is not the only way to acquire control over something, though. With corporations, it is much more indirect. The battle is not whether people have access to certain accounts in a ledger but whether people can pursue their happiness freely without interference from the thugs and goons working for banksters and masquerading as our elected leaders. Certainly putting all bitcoiners in jail is an interference of this right, but it can be achieved also by other means.
