Palantir founder Peter Thiel just, in a single interview, left 1.47 million people completely speechless: "If you’re evil, then you’re not really bad—you might even be, in a sense, good."

People in the crypto world probably feel that line more than anyone: Bitcoin has been condemned by mainstream media for more than a decade, from "money-laundering tool" to "Ponzi scheme"—and yet it has ended up becoming the first kind of money in human history that doesn’t need government endorsement.

So tell me—who really understands it better: the people who criticized it back then, or the ones who actually built it?