Everything around us had to start somewhere, someone had to create them. Since the subject matter of this article is not the existence of the Ultimate Creator of the Universe, I will focus only on the man-made things.

For the most of the man-made things, we know who made them and how they were made.

So, the designer and creator of some object, either a concrete, real-world object or an abstract concept or idea had the most influence on the thing he created. That is pretty much self-explanatory and obvious.

One of the core traits of a human being is the urge for self-preservation combined with different amounts of selfishness. Most of the things we do, even the stuff that most would perceive as altruistic, has our own self-interest and agenda behind it. Sometimes people do heroic and altruistic stuff because they are ego-maniacs and want to look noble and praise-worthy in the eyes of spectators and wider public. This is especially true in this new, modern age dominated by the social media and our avatars built on these highly popular platforms.

This is even more the case in the categories that really matter in life — money and power. People are absolutely insensitive and inconsiderate of others when it comes to money and gaining of the social status that money brings along.

The proof for this can be found in the current money system spread across the whole world. Fiat currencies are the epitome of this human trait — we have a clear hierarchy of people who benefit from this system in the same order, in every country in the world.

The ones who print it and lend it out first are of course the most privileged ones. And then everyone else that follows, benefits commensurate to their position in the hierarchy of this lending.

And these people are doing everything in their power to protect the system and their position in the system. Starting wars, destroying countries, killing innocent people — nothing is off-limits.

This pattern is very easily recognizable in the crypto industry as well — almost all altcoins in the market are issued in a very unbalanced way with huge benefits for the issuers (coin creators) and the narrow circle of people around them. Many would argue that the sheer existence of so many altcoins is only because of this reason — the creators want easy money and all of the rest is a show for the audience (whitepapers, use cases, updates, partnerships — all can be put in quotes as it is mostly a curtain of mist that distracts the buyers while developers evaporate with heavy pockets).

But the situation is different with bitcoin. As we all know, bitcoin start was a modest one. Basically, an idea by an anonymous guy shared with other like-minded people in a mailing list. And this invention of this anonymous guy was one of the rare cases of an actual altruistic move that didn’t have personal gains put above the benefits of the society.

Bitcoin never had any premines — it literally started with an invitation from Satoshi to other cypherpunks to join the newly started network, secure it and earn bitcoins in return.

Of course Satoshi has 1 million bitcoins but he did earn them. He laid out the rules and followed them to accumulate his BTC. He didn’t gift them to himself, he spent his electricity and used his laptop to mine the coins.

There is no one that can say bitcoin is unfair, from its inception to this day. Yes, there are whales, insiders that manipulate trade markets, exchanges that are highly unregulated and shady and myriad other problems but the algorithm itself, the rules are carved in the stone — you follow them, you get your bitcoins.

Of course that those who joined earlier enjoy the results of their decisions — but I don’t see anything unfair in that. The unfairness emerges only when people don’t play by the rules or write tendentious rules that benefit only them.

Even those who join now will be at huge advantage over those who join in 5 years or even later.