I'm still sceptical that BitCoin is anything more than the GNUtella of online payments. I agree with much of the political economy analysis of this post. But for that very reason, I don't think asymetries of economic power are undone by changing the way value is tokenized, for exchange with strangers. So I'm more excited by projects like GNU Taler and InterLedger because they're token-agnostic, and thus lack the logical centralisation distributed by blockchains.