/r/cryptocurrencies is a captured sub. Let me guess, they are talking about pools. Pools aren't miners and miners aren't nodes. Bitcoin is the most decentralized man-made thing on the planet. It's also capped in supply.

Bitcoin is it. That's it. That's your shot. Nothing else except one thing and it's luck. No one is going to just switch to some fantasy. They have bills to pay and a money creator to pay them to. So we all either move to bitcoin over time or we just get ruled by the elites however they like.

The only other hope is some geek gets to superAI first, has a good heart and does right by mankind.

Why don't you go to /r/futurology and pedal that stuff. It's also a captured sub. Why come here? This place must be getting more popular.