So now people want to centralize a decentralized currency to make it mainstream and become rich? You know i am becoming increasingly worried with the direction Bitcoin has started to take in the last couple of months. People don't want a decentralized currency that can never be taken down by governments and that will free people of oppression. They want to give Bitcoin to central bankers, let the big fish control it, just so 1 BTC can increase in value.
Brother you want to know the game plan?
This is what I think is what is going to happen. Bitcoin is the foundation for Web 4.0, the beginning of full decentralization, the masses begin to distribute the wealth that was centralized by businesses, yes the businesses shared the wealth to their employees but mainly concentrated it unto themselves, so people swindle them with Gucci crap I can make in my basement for 5 dollars in textiles.
Web 4.0 is the Virtualization of all human institutions, where the mass of people gave their decentralized currency to centralized business, the tables get turned, now the masses give unto themselves for their hard earned effort. You get to choose who you support, ten years from now someone will be firing up their Vertex 7 2000T to help out a virtualized corporation that works by the people for the people, Democracy 2.0; the world wide roll-out.
Bitcoin is the beginning, next step p2p weather stations that run on your phone, off of Open Source hardware, world wide data distributed to the masses.
Decentralized agricultural machinery, running world wide off a p2p A.I specifically built to efficiently run off of human supply and demand; and everyone who runs their FPGA to help gets paid.
World wide co-ordinated supply chain, trucks cars run by A.I delivering you groceries to your door, monitored thanks to the help of you, and you get paid!
Watson diagnosing your medical condition and analyzing it/ comparing it to all humans/ monitoring industry to regulate toxins thanks to your FPGA contributing it's effort to the health of every human being alive.
Pay for Contribution will become the norm... and no-one can stop it, they can attempt to destroy the individuals but it is unstoppable the only solution for them if they want to control is to create the greatest CCTV camera system ever created, with chips implanted in every human being, effectively zombifieing the population, and if they choose that route they may as well destroy us all, and replace us with machines...
good luck at this point; our collective intelligence out-computes anything that a centralized system could produce, it can only be delayed.
The multi-headed Machine that Satoshi unleashed is unstoppable, there are clones everywhere; The idea has been released, there is no choice, the collective can out-think any individual, and it does not forget.
Edit: If this distribution does not occur, and it keeps centralizing, the threat of automation will throw us into the deepest depression ever seen. The wealth will keep accumulating into the hands of a few, their taxes will keep being cut, more will be demanded of the middle class, increasing the lower classes. The only thing the Fed can do is keep printing more money to hide this ever increasing erosion, that is why inflation has not skyrocketed, they are offsetting the wealth distribution, but the stimulus' will get bigger and bigger as less and less of that money trickles down. labour will keep migrating faster and faster, people will be trained year after year in different industries because their old ones no longer are demanded. Social decay will begin to take over as the only income that people are getting is from Social Welfare programs that do not allow them to invest in their communities, just enough to subsist. Eventually power will concentrate into a few hands, into the hands of those that control the government and their descendants, a invisible monarchy will arise where we elect the chosen of the aristocracy, bringing about a communist system that subsidizes all industries for support... central control... or worse; a feudal system similar to what was described in the novel Dune.