Love Richie Allen....have been subscribed to him for ages. I am well aware of the elite's infiltration of Bitcoin but I would suggest that they are in the process of sticking their ore into all cryptocurrencies. They have been trying to implement a cashless society for a while now and if they gain control here they will succeed. We need to fight this.....how I am not sure but if there are any experts on this platform they must step forward with ideas. I am sure the steemit community will back them in order to keep decentralisation a key component.