The Crypto Dilemma: Centralization vs. Decentralization

I would love to talk a little bit about crypto and sound money. You know what I mean? Uh, two-part question. Does crypto truly decentralize power or is it being absorbed into the same control structure? Um, and the second part of that is, does crypto actually decentralize power or just create a new elite class, would you say? Well, you know more about that probably than I do, Todd. And I I can tell by the way you ask the question that you know, you definitely know the answer. So I will say yes, you are right. Crypto can be either one of those two directions, but the way it's going now, it's clearly going in in a uh centralized uh control grid movement. And that's I think what it was designed to do from the beginning. But in order to get some headway, they had to they had to paint it up a little bit and make it look like it was really a motion for freedom and independence and sovereignty and all that sort of thing. And it certainly opens the the the path, right? I mean, are are CBDCs the final evolution of central banking or ...