I love the protocol, but not the scumlords fucking it up. Sadly, I'm seeing reasons to believe Bitcoin was created with nefarious intent in mind, namely power/money, by entities possessing the same.
I am skeptical that bitcoin will succeed in the long term, but I do not yet see its origins with that pessimism. Not all the time at least.
I may have missed it, but in Satoshi's paper I did not see any goal stated, other than creating a payment system without a central trusted authority.
I have not read Satoshi's conversations with his "Prophets", but the sense that I get from the Writings by the latter is that, when bitcoin was being implemented, the goal had become, more explicitly, create an economy that governments and banks could not control, within the broader libetarian goal of creating an anarchic society etc.
More recently (especially since the 2013 bubbles) bitcoin was run over by an army of crooks and scammers, attracted by the promise of huge gains, by the (presumed) anonimity of accounts, by the lack of legal rules, by the rich but gullible public, etc. These crooks are motivated by profit, although they may be (more or less reluctant) agents of the government too.
