[stonogo]

Bitcoin fundamentally attracts people who assume existing markets are run in bad faith. It's why there's so much propaganda attacking "fiat currency," and presenting Bitcoin as some kind of ethical imperative.

[askmike]

Most bitcoin people I've met are very much in favor of everything free market, it's the goverments / central banks they don't trust.

[bpicolo]

You're looking at a group of 6 people that have relevant influence on bitcoin. You've still got centralized trust.

[icebraining]

The fact that 6 people tried and failed to get their way should imply the opposite, no?

[659087]

Bitcoin markets are a simulation of what would happen if you replaced the small group of people controlling governments and central banks with a small group of internet trolls, who held 95%+ of all available currency between them.

[dexterdog]

For very good historical reasons.