What Bitcoin and the American Dream Have in Common

As for bitcoin, it is now being peddled, in a sanitized form, by the likes of BlackRock, the biggest, most mainstream financial firm in the world, through the U.S. spot ETF. Bitcoin, the idea and asset born from the ashes of the Great Financial Crisis as a rejection of the Icarian behavior of the leverage-ridden, synthetic derivative-obsessed financiers who birthed the crisis, is now being advertised for purchase by those same institutions. Has Bitcoin been captured by corporate interests?