Having been involved in the crypto world for the last year or two, and by no means an expert and still learning every day, I have however looked on a little bemused by the “best of times worst of times” mentality by many in this space.

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With the Fed in the US making lots of noise, followed by China and other countries, there seem to be a little panic amongst some in the crypto world, but this should be expected. In fact it is a sign of maturing. All that we are experiencing is the normal resistance to change.
**Denial**
When Bitcoin started, it was fun, no one took it seriously, especially not governments and the big money they support and that keeps them in power in turn. Just a bunch of techies playing with funny money. Then it started rising in price and some people started making serious money, but until 2011 this was not really taken notice of by anyone. Most people just ignored it, and the powers that be made it off as a fad or “gamers money”.

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Through the 2012 – 2015 period things started changing, and while still mostly ignored, some started to take notice. This started happening as commodity traders (strongly gold trading biased) started talking about this phenomenon and started buying Bitcoin. Other so called Alt Coins sprang up and even if small, investors started jumping in. Some countries started to worry, and those that control the financial system started putting heads together to a) try and understand and b) form a response to this.

**Resistance**

During 2015 it became clear that although a fraction of world money flows, cryptocurrencies are spawning across the world, and most large firms and most governments had think tanks and teams investigating how to control or respond to this new “government less” money that is challenging the status quo. With the SEC report in the US coming out and deeming crypto’ s in general securities, they are now trying to control or bully the crypt world.

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It is still early in the resistance stage, but my point is simple, we should expect them to come after crypto. The centralised monopoly on money and power is too precious to let go, and too many powerbrokers stand to lose too much if they allow it to carry on.

You see the tactics in forcing exchanges (where fiat meets crypto and thus a point of control) to comply and ICO’s forced to give back money with no other basis than let as scare the shit out of them and hope it goes away

**Where to from here**

We knew, or should have expected this to happen. This is a proof of crypto’s success. The true bravery and commitment in taking on the inequitable and corrupt global system starts now. Now that we have the beady eyes of the powerful turning to us. We should not waver, but we need to evolve. We need to root out the mal intended from us, they ones that are just trying to play this as the big money plays the current system.

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Too many scam ICO’s, causes that fund violence and repression of various kinds, are taking place under our noses. We need to root these out and keep the moral high ground. Centralised control has through the aged feared the masses rallying behind just causes, and they use everything they can to scare the common man away from these causes that can and often have pried their grimy little paws of money and the power it brings.

Let us be resolute and stay the course