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You're not missing a thing. Bitcoin is sound in theory. In practice, though, humans are very flawed and they tend to submit to authority more than is healthy. In the case of Bitcoi…

I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ISE6R_-b3A

Privacy is a continuum. CoinJoin offers a trade-off between privacy and convenience. It is good enough for some cases.

Of course not. Is the owner of a monopolistic company a bad person? No. Is it good for society to allow a company to become a monopoly? No.

Exactly. The minute a cryptocurrency is backed by something, trust in a third party is reintroduced which defeats the whole purpose.

FYI Bitcoin marketcap as of today is 120B USD but your point still holds.

wouldn't this make all things comparable?

Please please please add something like MS Project...

Except selling auxilliary stuff to the prospectors is also a gold rush...