The rise of multi-billion-dollar custodians, like Coinbase, have revived historical fears that institutions could erode the founding principles of Bitcoin as decentralized, sound money. Cryptographer and legendary Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney made an optimistic prediction about just this nearly a decade ago. Finney seemed to foresee the rise of custody giants in a December 2010 […]The post Bitcoin banks: Hal Finney’s prediction for the “ultimate fate” of BTC appeared first on CryptoSlate.