It's one thing to work completely outside the system. That's good, that's important, and Monero is useful for that. It's another thing to coopt the system and transform it into something better and more decentralized, that puts limits on their actions. That's what Bitcoin does.
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Explain to me how bitcoin is going to "co-op the system and transform it into something better"
So far I don't think you all have thought much beyond:
Number Go Up ->
we all get rich ->
Trojan Horse blahblah ->
magic fairy dust ->
the bankers who run the world go away quietly saying "oh well, they said they lost their Bitcoin in a boating accident. what could we do?"
tbh y'all have no plausible argument this is going to happen at all.
Its a statement of faith, not of fact and it's not supported by much except saifedean-inspired hopium.
Which is exactly why Monero is important and anyone portraying themselves as a Cypherpunk shouldn't be fading it.
Oh my peabrained brother in Satoshi, you have much to learn and yet little patience. Bitcoin makes it in the evil governments' best interests to own bitcoin. They cannot control it, but its NGU is too strong for them to ignore, so they will eventually adopt it, just like all the corporations that are adopting it right now. They will have no choice that fulfills their greed better. Governments around the world are already talking about using it as a treasury asset or a strategic reserve, including the United States empire. This strengthens faith in Bitcoin for normies, and it also puts those entities in a position where they want bitcoin to succeed for their own power and influence. The only way for bitcoin to succeed is if they play by the rules of the Bitcoin network. The transparency of the network allows us to audit these institutions, and the rules, backed by their own greed, enforce that they cannot create any bitcoin collateral out of thin air. This imposes limitations in the LONG RUN on these corporate and state entities, enforced by other entities doing the same thing, including individual people, around the entire world. Bitcoin uses greed as a tool to limit greed's power to control.
But you wouldn't understand because of your willful ignorance and your blind assumption that we haven't thought it through. I think you're projecting quite frankly.
"To date?" You're incapable of considering the future?