It seems like every week lately a new country has their own "strategy" with today's being Brazil. It is pretty obvious what is happening at this point. Back before the price ruled everything, these entities would be considered an attack on Bitcoin. Now, they are the bribe that gets our community to sell out the goal for. Being totally honest, I don't even know what the goal of Bitcoin is anymore. Certainly not P2P currency, or removing power from central banks... Who cares though right? Bitcoin to the moon! We're all getting lambos!
Your post is food for thought.
My own take - but I haven't thought about it much yet, honestly.
WTF were we expecting? The best asset in the world left to a bunch of cyberpunks smart enough to see the truth back in the day? Of course human greed - of which corporate greed is the more structured incarnation - would take over. OK, maybe the P2P road seems a bit troublesome right now. However, Lightning does work, and I'm using a nifty app that moves sats in seconds, no questions asked.
Apart from P2P currency, the goal of bitcoin could still be protecting money from evaporation via inflation. And in due time, possibly disciplining rogue central banks that solve each and every problem by what they know best how to do - namely printing. Gold failed at that, after Nixon blah blah blah, and it is too easy to confiscate: remember Eisenhower - and Hitler and Mussolini and all the other warmongers thirsty for war funds before that, back to the Incas maybe?
Now bitcoin has this thing about private keys and boating accidents that makes it much, much better than gold at establishing a baseline for value. That might be the ultimate goal.
Interesting times indeed.
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