Today, instead of the phrases “include unbanked people” and “be your own bank,” we celebrate that major traditional banks advertise Bitcoin custody services. Instead of privacy, we rush to take selfies with documents in search of higher limits for trades, leverage, options and futures. We are happy that billionaire funds and big companies and corporations are buying all the Bitcoin they can, believing that they are now also “Bitcoiners.”
Its a hard hitting article.
The writer is making the point that our [generally speaking] vision has changed from
being part of an anonymous revolutionary movement to almost the complete opposite.
We have given up our anonymity so that we can buy bitcoin and sell it back to the same
people and institutions which we are supposed to be seperate from.
We all know Bitcoin's use has changed. Governments and Traditional Investors either looking
for profit or as a store of wealth/value are adopting it or embracing it either through regulation
or mining licencing. Average Joe and Jane public are speculating. Bitcoins values still remain,
it can still provide us with the means to be our own bank.