They've been wanting to control it for years, that is nothing new. If you think they stand a chance of succeeding, watch what is going to happen with Jihan Wu's MASF for he's announcing for August in response to BIP148. If the dominant miner can't control Bitcoin (and I expect his effort to fail spectacularly), what chance to a clueless bunch of bankers with no miners have?

Please.  

They may want a "master key" but it ain't gona happen.

EDIT: How is someone going to do this? wait for it.... wait for it... I have been waiting since 2010 for a logical answer to this concern. Just one.

Meh, dumb banksters are dumb:


Unless they're talking about one of the privacy-oriented coins, all transactions on the blockchain are visible to them.  I think what they actually mean to say is they want to access the personal data of all the participants who are transacting on the blockchain so they can:

• store it insecurely
• do some analysis on it
• sell the analysis to highest bidders
• lose everyone's personal data to a hack (and not for the first time)
• pretend it's not their fault, learn nothing and repeat the whole process again later

If we're not worried about "being enslaved", the reason is two-fold.  Firstly, it's that we were already enslaved before crypto became a thing and now we are free.  And secondly, because we know what we have here is safe from the bankster assclowns, because they are too dense to understand the whole appeal of it to begin with, let alone understand it well enough to maintain even the slightest semblance of control over it.  The article even states as much:


It couldn't possibly be that maybe we don't want to sell?  That we realise fiat monopoly money is going to be printed into oblivion and the IOUs will approach near-worthless as time rolls on?  That we know they have a laughable security record and cost their customers time, money and effort with each and every fraud the banksters have enabled with their flawed and insecure system.  Speculation may well be largely responsible for the ballooning fiat price of crypto, but those who understand it best are accumulating and hodling.  

The only thing in the article is where they really hit the nail on the head is where they recognise what the banksters want:


Maybe they should call their controlled blockchain "Blockbuster", since that particular style of business model worked so well for them.    

They will end up with a master key for nothing because for starters it's not possible, and second there won't be a Bitcoin to shut down as anyone with an operating mind will abandon it.

Funnily enough it's grown as far as it has without The Man having a kill switch and is growing ever faster. That won't change no matter what they squeal for.

The USA is not likely to become the accepted regulators of bitcoin when Asia, Europe, etc are as invested in BTC.  I could see this one day becoming an issue of the UN.

Likely someone in the US will come up with an altcoin on a private blockchain that can be traded in the us exchanges. But its not likely to be. BTC.

And if they want to do that, let them. Blockchain is now a concept that surpasses Satoshi's vision.  I'm sure Napster never thought that their decentralized p2p music sharing model would end up as a commercial centralized p2p model in something like Uber.

It has been fun to watch the banksters go from:
You can't just make money you fools, only we can do that.  
to:
It can't work! because... well... it's not allowed!!!  
to:
Stop it! Just stop it now or give me a master key!!! It's not allowed!! Our monopoly is crumbling... Nooooo.  

You can't contain the decentralized revolution </insert Trump's meme here> I'm already awake and I know Wu is too small to be considered a threat believe me I can tell what's going on down there just by looking at his face in a picture he is too small for bitcoin, the biggest mother fu*kers in the world tried and failed more than few times by now.
Or are you talking about Core and blockstream? if so then shut up.

While some people can buy all the ASICs in the world, including the ASIC factories, and others can't buy a single one, Bitcoin will be centralized.

Why am I not worried? How about the fact that there is no such thing as Bitcoin blockchain master key? Duh.

They claim to seek the impossible. Not sure if they are stupid, or just engaged in some public misdirection. Probably the latter...

I will accept that some of the alts coins could be centralized and controlled by a single entity but not bitcoin,as you really cannot be controlled by a center figure and so i have nor worries about it when it comes to bitcoin,so these are just pep talk just to create chaos to the newbies coming into bitcoin.