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8f8g7 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My point is since the beginning of this thread: we will always trust / consent to a minority with our lives savings.

The bitcoin elites have just less incentives /possibilities to do something bad compared to fiat central banking elites. But they have the option to act in bad faith.

Hence we want them to be good, because they can short our lives savings to buy another Lamborghini or whatever their heart desires.

But bad people can infiltrate these elite circles and do bad things.
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nicnym | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Are you more concerned about:

Maintaining purchasing power over time without exploiting others ? 

Code sabotage/institutional reliability ?

Influencers/politics ?

Address each issue one by one and if you find a better solution than Bitcoin than please let us know.
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8f8g7 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 These issues are all interconnected. But I am mostly concerned with code sabotage and institutional reliability (bitcoin Devs and Ops and the servers they maintain are the institutions). From this everything else is derived. If less people trust bitcoin then the purchasing power drops. This can be done through code sabotage and influencers amplifying FUD and other bollocks (like monkey jpegs on the blockchain).
Politics play their own game and politicians are experienced with this. Up until bitcoin the state and the military industrial complex was concerned with defending our property. With bitcoin we put our eggs in another basket. They lose the grip of their power. But they still have the guns, bombs and kompromat.
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nicnym | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don’t think of it that way

Core devs can’t force me to update my node

Thank God for Bitcoin