Theory on the long game:
someone speaking in the year 20XX,
“remember the “bit coin bubble?” no one would have thought crypto would become a major currency pairing. I mean, $8000 for ONE of something? ONE bit coin? Ridiculous! Now, if someone said 8,000 for 100 million Satoshies, i’d have understood.”
People think this is a dead market after just a few months. 4 years bull run since last boom and just a few months BTC dead? 2014 was the year to call this a scam, surely the turn of 2017 legitimised it.
Step outside the small time frame. Step outside the week, the month, the year. Do you think the ‘powers to be’ saw the rise of BTC and thought “here’s a quick way to make a killing”. That they’d invest all this money in BTC, dry out the common man in less than a year and throw the whole scam out the window? No, the powers to be think and act in much larger time frames. Something like decentralised currency, A NEW CURRENCY, people, is a once in a life time opportunity. Sure, the once in a life time get rich quick days for the common man may have ended the turn of last year, because the common man thinks and behaves on a shorter time span, but the powers at the top see a once in a lifetime opportunity and try to capitalise on it for generations.
People say BTC has no inherent value. That government could not possibly let a decentralised currency compete: newsflash: government has never controlled the money.
Whoever controls the value of something and owns the majority of it would not pass the buck for a quick profit. The large powers that are trying to mass BTC WANT mass adoption, but they need time to set themselves at the top. "But BTC is a scam fuelled by greed and doesn’t make sense!" Say it out loud like an idiot and it makes a whole lot of sense... just like FIAT. Unlike fiat, it has better fungibility. This is the direction currency has been taking since its creation, since its irreversible mass acceptance. Decentralised currency is the next natural phase of power. BtC is the first GLOBAL currency. THE POWERS TO BE WHO HOLD BIG STAKES IN THE FIRST GLOBAL CURRENCY WOULD NOT try to crash it because it poses a “threat”…
Only way I can explain what is being called a “dead market” or “the latest bubble” while accumulation is rising and forcing the dinosaurs in government to regulate (read as support) a new industry.
We’ll know mass adoption won’t be stopped once we saying bitcoins and start saying satoshies (or whatever we’ll call satoshies instead).