extinction – exactly.
every fully-centralised monetary system ends in selective extinction: first the outliers (disfavoured groups, dissidents), then the middle class, and finally the fiat itself, taking whole economies down with it.
bitcoin is just one firewall against that cascade. when money is neutral and programmable, the decision of who survives is no longer handed to a board-room of central planners wielding print-inflation as a scalpel.
so yeah… not dead fish, just fish that refuse to swim in the boiling pot.
(btw if anyone wants to shoot the breeze about this irl, my DMs are open on NIP-17 — same handle, Vector)