taaha47

I agree, take a thousand brain theory book for instance, the author argues that artificial intelligence will never be a threat to humanity, since it won't have motives like we do. Primal motives are hardwired in our brain, they are actually shortcut to our muscles that our intelligence possesses no control over. On the other hand, the neocortext, the part of the brain that is actually intelligent, doesn't exhibit such motives... Creating intelligence that mimics ours is just bad design, artificial intelligence will probably look a lot different than ours.

The point was it has deviated from it's original purpose which is a decentralized, identity free financial system.

Dark markets apart, it has almost no practical use today. I've read some comments on people sending money cross borders using bitcoin, the author might have overlooked this. Anyways, without numbers it is mere speculations... What is interesting in his article is the fact that decentralized solutions are deviating from their original purpose, becoming less powerful, and centralized.