[n31ght0]

The Bilderberg Group represents the banking & political elite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
The Bilderberg Group funded Blockstream (which does the programming for Bitcoin BTC). On February 3rd, 2016, AXA invested $55 million in Blockstream. At the time of that investment, Henri de Castries was the head of both AXA and Bilderberg Group.

https://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-55-...-series-a/
https://blockstream.com/2016/02/02/block...ies-a.html (Archive: http://archive.is/psVd3 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Castries
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/47...ilderberg/
MasterCard funded Digital Currency Group, which funded Blockstream. Note: Glenn Hutchins serves as a board director for both the Digital Currency Group and the Federal Reserve Bank.

https://www.ccn.com/mastercard-digital-currency-group/
http://dcg.co/who-we-are/ (Archive: http://archive.is/6BLgo )
http://dcg.co/portfolio/#b (Archive: http://archive.is/u9e3n )
Blockstream crippled Bitcoin BTC, to push people towards the Lightning Network:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoins-...e-solution

(1/16/18 Update): https://blockstream.com/2018/01/16/light...harge.html (Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/2018040107164...harge.html )

The Truth About Lightning Network:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g
Blockstream crippled Bitcoin BTC with high fees, so that people will have to use the Lightning Network (a Blockstream project) for everyday transactions.

Result: The Bilderberg Group, the Federal Reserve central bank, MasterCard, and traditional banking sector have taken over Bitcoin BTC, crippled it, to turn it into a currency system that they control & profit from.

Analysis: Bitcoin BTC has been compromised. Time to switch to another cryptocurrency.

[Sir.Business]

This is all fake news conjured by BCHABC/BCHSV forkers designed to mislead people who are new to bitcoin and weren't around to experience everything first hand.  Bitcoin was started in 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto himself set the 1 MB block size limit in 2010 and Blockstream wasn't founded until 2014.

The Lightning Network isn't a Blockstream project, it's open source with multiple implementations (LND, C-lightning, Eclair, etc).  There's no way for Blockstream to monetize it regardless.

The entire conspiracy theory doesn't have internal consistency or hold up to the slightest scrutiny.  But then again, what would you expect from the fucking BCH morons whose coin lost 75%+ of its value vs BTC since they forked a year and a half ago XD :) :) :P

His thread almost made me believe it until you cleared it up

[n31ght0]

This is all fake news conjured by BCHABC/BCHSV forkers designed to mislead people who are new to bitcoin and weren't around to experience everything first hand.  Bitcoin was started in 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto himself set the 1 MB block size limit in 2010 and Blockstream wasn't founded until 2014.

The Lightning Network isn't a Blockstream project, it's open source with multiple implementations (LND, C-lightning, Eclair, etc).  There's no way for Blockstream to monetize it regardless.

The entire conspiracy theory doesn't have internal consistency or hold up to the slightest scrutiny.  But then again, what would you expect from the fucking BCH morons whose coin lost 75%+ of its value vs BTC since they forked a year and a half ago XD :) :) :P

thanks for enlighten me

[krisj]

Focus has it right.

But really, no one owns enough of bitcoin to really control the whole system. It's going to take a lot of coordination of centralized adversaries to attempt to take it down, and there would still likely remain a useable fork somewhere. Be critical of anyone proposing that BTC or blockchain systems like it can be controlled so simply. The same goes for the commits that go into the development.