The human being has used tools throughout its history, one of the important ones, is one that has allowed a faster transformation of that which surrounds us, fire. The fire, has allowed a better cooking of food, boiling water, melting metals; the next step in fire control is pyrotechnics and weapons. There are several mythological stories about the fire, one that is interesting is where Prometheus stole the fire from the gods, to give it to the human. It is that tool, worthy of stealing and giving itself; to transcend.
The same goes for bitcoin, it is the tool of the new millennium; the one we were waiting for was given, to transform our surroundings, this could only happen with certain conditions, the arrival of computers to each house, the internet, mobile devices and the crisis of 2008.
The tools are neither good nor bad, it all depends on how they are used, just the bitcoin behaves, it can give some warmth by offering new jobs or it can completely undo you. It is this point that we must reflect on the use we are giving bitcoin; much is mentioned about that it is a decentralized tool, because no government controls it, yet the bitcoin is still controlled by every person who interacts with this tool, from the person who performs a search on google, through the person which buys products, even those who are engaged in foreign exchange; at this point it should be noted that the main actors of the bitcoin are the so-called "miners", these people mostly have knowledge in the area of computer science and some even deep knowledge in programming. It is in them where the bitcoin emanates, without thinking they are centralizing it, some people are promoters of actions like "hard fork", to avoid centralization, unfortunately this is not enough; what is needed is that each of these people involved in the cryptomonedas will relate even more to people who do not understand the subject. I stopped reading the white papers of the cryptomonedas, because they mention many hypotheses, the message they tell me, is that they were written by people who do not know Wall Street wolves, these wolves know the tricks, as far as economy is concerned, besides being experts in economic products. It is no wonder that few people on Wall Street understand terms like blockchain, the truth is that they are not interested in understanding the nature itself of the cryptomonedas, wolves are hungry and killed for eating meat. The clear example is the chaos that was generated in the housing crisis of 2008, where the basis of this crisis was ignorance.
We must be very careful about the fire that has been given to us or we will be incinerated if we do not use it properly.