You're actually almost right. While Bitcoin was launched with lofty goals, it was pretty quickly overtaken by capitalist vultures who saw a low-regulation industry to extract money from people.

Importantly though, it's not an either/or. Capitalism is problematic and cryptocurrency is problematic. Both can be true at the same time.

Bitcoin inventors were anarcho-capitalists, an ideology that promotes an extreme version of capitalism where there are no governments and corporations have unlimited power.

But Bitcoin investors are mostly indifferent to the goals or mechanisms behind Bitcoin and merely hope to sell a coin to someone else for more than they paid for it.

Could you provide some background (or links) to your claim (I thought the inventor(s) of Bitcoin were anonymous)? Thank you.

Anarcho-capitalists should not be surprised if a vacuum of power over Bitcoin is filled by those with the most means.

The early adopters were considerably more varied than just "anarcho"-capitalists.

Go try something else.