Btw, so that you get where I'm coming from:
I do hold the view that sound money, especially Bitcoin, can enable more freedom for individuals.
I'm talking of the problems that arise from the monopolistic nature of government and the consequences caused by such a monopoly. Addressing the root cause is what I was doing.
I wasn't being dismissive of Bitcoin's potential impact. You'd have probably noticed that it was a rhetorical statement.
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Distributed consensus secures value, beyond sovereign decree. Individual freedom through cryptographically proven scarcity; this is the mechanism.
Spreading ideas and trying to convince people in the hopes that we will vote people into power who will privatize and decrease government monopoly will not work. The incentive structure of credit based money cannot allow that to happen.
I believe you have the root cause wrong. The root cause is not the monopolistic nature of government. The root cause is fiat money which enables their monopoly.
The problem is the money which is a technical issue and Bitcoin fixes that. Individuals must take back their freedom with nation state resistant cryptography. That’s the only way.