Bitcoin, and eventually broader crypto, was steered away from being a decentralized alternative to the state and toward integration into the very financial system it was meant to replace.
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<p><strong>Bitcoin, and eventually broader crypto, was steered away from being a decentralized alternative to the state and toward integration into the very financial system it was meant to replace.</strong></p>
<adv/><p>In an interview, Aaron Day, co-founder of Daylight Freedom, a foundation dedicated to financial sovereignty and individual liberty, reached this conclusion based on his personal experiences with Bitcoin. </p>
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<h2><strong>Questioning Bitcoin’s Original Mission</strong></h2>
<p>Nowadays, Bitcoin is best known for its non-sovereign, censorship-resistant characteristics. For several years now, the crypto community has touted the asset as akin to gold, albeit digital. </p>
<p>Day, an outspoken critic of cryptocurrencies and a libertarian thinker, once thought this too. </p>
<p>That’s why he started using Bitcoin as early as 2012. However, he soon started to realize that its narrative was in a constant state of transformation– one that parted ways with its self-proclaimed decentralized nature.</p>
<p>His persistent remarks on social media and sharp criticisms of some of the industry’s most powerful companies have inevitably made some paint him as a conspiracy theorist. </p>
<p>However, his long trajectory as a crypto user in the space, paired with the research he conducts as a fellow at the Brownstone Institute, provides a perspective that’s hard to dismiss, especially amid Bitcoin’s broader mainstream adoption.</p>
<h2><strong>New Hampshire as a Bitcoin Testing Ground</strong></h2>
<p>When Day, a New Hampshire resident, started using Bitcoin 15 years ago, many restaurants and shops accepted it directly. It already functioned as a spendable digital currency. </p>
<p>In many ways, the state was a breeding ground for this type of activity. </p>
<p>Known as the “Live Free or Die” region, New Hampshire also became the home of the Free State Project, a nonprofit political migration movement founded in 2001 that successfully relocated roughly 20,000 free thinkers to the area, aiming to concentrate them in a low-population state.</p>
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<p>“Live Free or Die” — Start your Journey with the Free State Project<br/><br/>The fight for liberty began right here in New Hampshire and it’s alive and thriving today. We are Free Staters — thousands of liberty lovers who’ve made the move to the Granite State to live free and build a… pic.twitter.com/8JssrpsMfC</p>
— The Free State Project (@FreeStateNH) November 6, 2025</blockquote>
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<p>Day was the Chairman of that project, and by virtue of his beliefs, he became attracted to Bitcoin’s potential.</p>
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<p>“Back [in 2012], mostly conferences were about how Bitcoin was going to be used as an alternative to central banks, how it was going to be something that solved the problem of the 2008 financial crisis, [and] how it was going to be a tool that didn’t require intermediaries or third parties. This is how I got introduced to it,” Day told BeInCrypto during a podcast episode. </p>
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<p>However, despite its early adoption in his city, the narrative began to shift by 2017. According to him, it soon became unusable. </p>
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<p>“All of a sudden, the fees went through the roof. We went from transactions being finalized in seconds to days. It lost its fundamental utility, which is to be something that anyone anywhere in the world could engage in voluntary transactions without third parties,” he added.</p>
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<p>Though that was Day’s original frustration with the currency, it soon only represented the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<h2><strong>A Narrative Shift From Cash to Store of Value</strong></h2>
<p>When Day started using Bitcoin, it was seen as just another form of currency for everyday transactions with decentralized advantages. It was never perceived as anything else. </p>
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<p>“People weren’t talking about primarily as being digital gold. It’s something you just hold and save and don’t spend. It’s not in the title of the whitepaper, this is not the behavior and function of Bitcoin,” he explained.</p>
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<p>These changes coincided with the rise of Layer 2 solutions in crypto. These secondary protocols, built on top of the primary blockchain, are designed to significantly increase transaction speeds and reduce fees. Protocols like Segregated Witness (SegWit) and Lightning Network became particularly popular at the time. </p>
<p>While many developers argued these upgrades were necessary technical trade-offs, Day interpreted them differently. </p>
<p>In his view, the technical debate around scaling was inseparable from a broader structural shift happening behind the scenes — one related to who was funding Bitcoin’s development.</p>
<h2><strong>From Non-Profit Backing to Institutional Influence</strong></h2>
<p>In 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established in the United States to promote Bitcoin use and protect the integrity of the project. It also supported Bitcoin’s earliest core developers. </p>
<p>Three years later, however, the organization collapsed amid internal turmoil and financial difficulties. </p>
<p>Shortly afterward, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, through its Digital Currency Initiative —directed by Jeffrey Epstein-linked Joi Ito— began funding several Bitcoin core developers.</p>
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<div>Current staff at the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative. Source: MIT.</div>
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<p>To many in the ecosystem, this was a practical solution. Bitcoin was an open-source protocol without a formal corporate sponsor. Developers needed funding to continue their work.</p>
<p>But for Day, the timing raised questions.</p>
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<p>“MIT took over, and then some of the same developers that were working on things like SegWit and Lightning Network, essentially hobbling Bitcoin as peer-to-peer cash and moving to this Bitcoin is digital gold narrative.”</p>
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<p>As Bitcoin’s scalability issues became more apparent and the network’s future development was increasingly steered by well-funded institutional interests, the project’s decentralized nature began to erode.</p>
<p>Fast forward to today, and Bitcoin has become extensively integrated in infrastructure directly tied to traditional, centralized banking. Exchange-traded funds tied to the asset, institutional custody, and nation-state reserves have since entered the conversation. </p>
<p>Day questioned whether this trajectory was inevitable or the result of structural forces that redirected Bitcoin’s original mission. </p>
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<p>“I think at the end of this, the longer it goes on, the more it’s pretty clear that all of crypto has been hijacked,” he concluded. </p>
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Was Bitcoin Hijacked? How Institutional Interests Shaped Its Narrative Since 2015

比特幣，以及最終更廣泛的加密貨幣，其發展方向並非成為國家去中心化的替代方案，而是融入了它原本旨在取代的金融體系。

在一次採訪中……

<div><div><p><strong>比特幣，以及最終更廣泛的加密貨幣，被引導偏離了成為國家去中心化替代方案的初衷，轉而融入它原本要取代的金融體系。</strong></p><adv/><p>在一次採訪中，致力於金融主權和個人自由的基金會 Daylight Freedom 的聯合創始人 Aaron Day 根據他個人使用比特幣的經歷得出了這一結論。</p><adv/><div><div><iframe/></div></div><h2><strong>質疑比特幣的最初使命</strong></h2><p>如今，比特幣最廣為人知的特性是其非主權性和抗審查性。多年來，加密貨幣社區一直將這種資產吹捧為類似於黃金，只不過是數字化的。</p><p>戴伊是一位直言不諱的加密貨幣批評者和自由主義思想家，他也曾有過這種想法。</p><p>這就是為什麼他早在 2012 年就開始使用比特幣的原因。然而，他很快意識到比特幣的敘事方式一直在不斷變化——這與它自稱的去中心化性質漸行漸遠。</p><p>他在社交媒體上持續發表言論，並對業內一些最有實力的公司進行尖銳批評，這不可避免地讓一些人把他描繪成陰謀論者。</p><p>然而，他作為加密貨幣用戶的長期經歷，以及他在布朗斯通研究所擔任研究員期間所做的研究，提供了一個難以忽視的觀點，尤其是在比特幣被更廣泛的主流接受的背景下。</p><h2><strong>新罕布什爾州作為比特幣試驗場</strong></h2><p>15年前，新罕布什爾州居民戴伊開始使用比特幣時，許多餐館和商店都直接接受比特幣。它當時已經可以作為一種可用的數字貨幣使用。</p><p>從很多方面來看，該州是這類活動的滋生地。</p><p>新罕布什爾州被稱為“不自由，毋寧死”地區，也是自由州計劃的所在地。該計劃是一個非營利性政治移民運動，成立於 2001 年，成功地將大約 20,000 名自由思想者遷往該地區，目的是將他們集中在一個人口稀少的州。</p><div><div><blockquote><p> “不自由，毋寧死”——從自由邦項目開始你的旅程<br/><br/>爭取自由的鬥爭始於新罕布什爾州，如今它依然生機勃勃。我們是自由州居民——成千上萬熱愛自由的人，我們移居花崗岩州，是為了自由地生活，建設…… pic.twitter.com/8JssrpsMfC</p> — 自由州項目 (@FreeStateNH) 2025年11月6日</blockquote></div></div><p>戴伊是該項目的主席，由於他的信仰，他被比特幣的潛力所吸引。</p><blockquote><p> “早在（2012年），大多數會議都在討論比特幣將如何作為中央銀行的替代品，它將如何解決2008年金融危機的問題，以及它將如何成為一種不需要中介或第三方機構的工具。我就是這樣接觸到比特幣的，”戴伊在BeInCrypto的一期播客節目中說道。</p></blockquote><p>然而，儘管這項技術在他所在的城市很早就被採用，但到了 2017 年，情況開始發生變化。據他所說，這項技術很快就變得無法使用了。</p><blockquote><p> “突然之間，手續費飆升。交易完成時間從幾秒鐘變成了幾天。它失去了最根本的實用性，即讓世界各地的人都能在無需第三方的情況下進行自願交易，”他補充道。</p></blockquote><p>雖然這是戴伊最初對這種貨幣感到沮喪的原因，但這很快表明這只是冰山一角。</p><h2><strong>從現金到價值儲存手段的敘事轉變</strong></h2><p>當戴伊開始使用比特幣時，它被視為另一種用於日常交易的貨幣形式，具有去中心化的優勢。人們從未賦予它其他任何意義。</p><blockquote><p> “人們最初並不是把它當作數字黃金來討論。它是一種你持有和儲存，而不是用來消費的東西。白皮書的標題裡沒有提到這一點，這也不是比特幣的行為和功能，”他解釋道。</p></blockquote><p>這些變化恰逢加密貨幣領域二層解決方案的興起。這些構建在主區塊鏈之上的輔助協議旨在顯著提高交易速度並降低費用。隔離見證（SegWit）和閃電網絡等協議在當時尤為流行。</p><p>雖然許多開發者認為這些升級是必要的技術權衡，但 Day 對此有不同的看法。</p><p>在他看來，圍繞擴容的技術爭論與幕後發生的更廣泛的結構性轉變密不可分——這種轉變與誰在資助比特幣的發展有關。</p><h2><strong>從非營利組織的支持到機構的影響</strong></h2><p>2012年，比特幣基金會（Bitcoin Foundation）在美國成立，這是一個非營利組織，旨在推廣比特幣的使用並保護該項目的完整性。它還為比特幣最早的核心開發者提供支持。</p><p>然而，三年後，該組織因內部動盪和財務困難而倒閉。</p><p>不久之後，麻省理工學院 (MIT) 媒體實驗室通過其數字貨幣計劃（由與傑弗裡·愛潑斯坦有關聯的伊藤穰一領導）開始資助幾位比特幣核心開發者。 </p><div><img src="https://cnews24.ru/uploads/b1a/b1aafb80e9746566a06c6b1643de84dc7bf66a81.jpg"/><div>麻省理工學院媒體實驗室數字貨幣計劃的現任工作人員。來源：麻省理工學院。</div></div><p>對生態系統中的許多人來說，這是一個切實可行的解決方案。比特幣是一個開源協議，沒有正式的企業贊助商。開發者需要資金才能繼續他們的工作。</p><p>但對戴伊來說，時機引發了疑問。</p><blockquote><p> “麻省理工學院接手後，一些原本致力於 SegWit 和閃電網絡等項目的開發者，實際上削弱了比特幣作為點對點現金的功能，轉而提出了比特幣是數字黃金的說法。”</p></blockquote><p>隨著比特幣的可擴展性問題日益明顯，並且網絡的未來發展越來越受到資金雄厚的機構利益的引導，該項目的去中心化特性開始受到侵蝕。</p><p>時至今日，比特幣已廣泛融入與傳統中心化銀行體系直接相關的基礎設施中。與比特幣掛鉤的交易所交易基金、機構託管和國家儲備等問題也隨之成為討論的焦點。</p><p> Day質疑這種發展軌跡是不可避免的，還是結構性力量改變了比特幣最初的使命的結果。</p><blockquote><p>他總結道：“我認為，這件事拖得越久，就越能清楚地表明，整個加密貨幣領域已經被劫持了。”</p></blockquote></div></div>

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