What Future Are We Building Bitcoin For?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bitcoin started as a rebellious, anti-establishment technology. In many parts of the world, and for many people, it remains exactly that. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, however, there is a wave of traditionalists and institutional players moving into the space. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are they buying into the revolution, or are they trying to capture value while fitting the disruption into a box that maintains the current power structure they lead? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those are the key questions explored by Meltem Demirors in her new essay</span> <a href= "https://meltdem.substack.com/p/unintended-architecture"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Unintended Architecture.”</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">The piece is our selection for this week’s “Long Reads Sunday.” </span></p>