I took part in the Occupy Occupation that took place here in Christchurch New Zealand and remember feeling mostly disillusioned. The Occupation had solid reasons to exist but it was sidelined and ultimately silenced. New Zealand is very much a tribute-subsidiary of the US financial system. 80% of the NZ banking sector is majority owned by US shareholders and most of the dividends and control thus derive to the US. The corruption of the financial system is hard to refute- it had and remains corrupt and holding too much power. Bankers own our governments and undermine our democracies. But Occupy did not ultimately provide any real solution- just a protest against the bankers that ultimately fizzled out. So when Bitcoin appeared- I did not hear about it until early 2017, I was impressed- it took a while to really understand Bitcoin, but here was something that responded to the bankers in a way that they could not easily sideline. Today Bitcoin has Occupied Wall st. But I wonder at the same time just how much also Wall street has captured and controlled the Bitcoin- making it subservient to the bankers and their global hegemony.