Who are the game changing actors? Are there any? Let's forget about the clowns like Roger Ver and Calvin Ayre, they're simply sharks who know how to smell the money and profit by doing dishonest stuff like pumping the price.
The only person who owns something is the person who can pull the plug. No one can pull the plug on bitcoin, therefore no one controls it.
Companies that piggyback on bitcoin are just companies, even in case of Coinbase or Bitmain, they were there among the first and seized the opportunity. Another company can come in and do the same, as none of these actually control anything.
They only care about profit, and don't really have the means or the power to dictate anything worldwide (though Bitmain think they can hold everyone hostage). But there is no master plan for world domination and for changing the society. I wish there was a plan, but there isn't. Everyone is clueless. Things are happening and no one knows why, like we're all a bunch of idiots and life is bouncing us around, including those in power who are perhaps more clueless than us regular people. That drunk **** Juncker definitely doesn't know what he's doing. He's a much bigger liability to the fate of the world than Trump is.
To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows what bitcoin is or what it should be. There's only two ways to react by those in power: one is embracing crypto to advance a country, the other is trying to subdue crypto to traditional rules and regulations. I fear for bitcoin because of the second one, especially because of traitors like Bitstamp who intentionally regulated themselves in order to appear more honest to their clients.
We're still a long way off from the solution to this mess. As for myself, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be a second coming of bitcoin (of the huge price rise, that is). I'd like to see a global system with instant and almost free transactions, and maybe we're moving towards that and maybe nothing can stop that. Visa, Mastercard and other companies are hanging on for dear life (HODL?) but they'll fall off eventually. Their product is obsolete and their fees are obscene.
P.S. Since some people are a bit incoherent when discussing bitcoin on this forum, I did a RouletteZeitung and took the liberty of letting my thoughts flow wherever they want.
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