The Bitcoin Economy Isn't So Different from the Traditional One
As Bitcoin moves towards becoming a part of the mainstream economy, why should it be any different from the traditional economy? Well, that's what the scenario looks like in the Bitcoin community. It is a well-known fact that 50% of the whole world's economy is controlled by the top 1% of the population, similarly 99% of the Bitcoin is under the control of 1% of Bitcoin community. The only difference between traditional economy and Bitcoin economy is that in the traditional economy, when it comes to fiat currency it is easy to identify how much a person is worth and who are the rich and....
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