Enough with the ICO-Me-So-Horny-Get-Rich-Quick-Lambo 'Crypto'

Bitcoin can be bought or mined, can be sent in various fast ways, small fees paid and recipients get bitcoin and it can be sold in tens of minutes, sometimes even faster.

She/he/it even acknowledged this, that the bitcoin version in 2008 was not some final answer received from the gods.

Tens of thousands of people, at least, have flocked into bitcoin, blockchain, with major conferences nearly every week.

Probably most people are interested in the "Bitcoin Era," starting roughly around 2008-2010, but with some important history leading up to it.

You're saying bitcoin and crypto innovators need to fight the powers that be, essentially, not align with them to achieve true innovation?

CoinDesk: Is there a blockchain or cryptocurrency that's doing it right? Is bitcoin, in your opinion, getting its own vision right?

"Blockchain," now its own rapidly-developing industry, is proceeding on several paths: private blockchains, bank-controlled blockchains, pubic blockchains, even using the bitcoin blockchain itself.

You can contrast that with the straightforward roll-out of credit cards, or even the relatively clean roll-out of bitcoin.

CoinDesk: You mentioned implications for money... Were there any inclinations then that something like bitcoin or cryptocurrency would come along?

Satoshi himself even said that bitcoin would likely either go to zero in value or to a "Lot." I think many were either not following it or expected it would go to zero, just another bit of wreckage on the Information Superhighway.