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 People will circle jerk around the idea that the US is a failing state going the way of the USSR. What they fail to realize is that the US is the culture leader, we are the city on a hill for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

Bitcoin needs the people in the United States to bring the torch of liberty forward by taking money out of the hands of government. No one else can do it.  
 The west in general needs bitcoin to bring back reality and a healthy society 
 All fiat eventually dies. Once the dollar dies, what will we have left? We have no exports. We are still (maybe) the leaders in tech but it’s all controlled and restricted. And they’re pushing the Bitcoiners out, it doesn’t look good right now. 
 the growth of the alternative Bitcoin system is a process and we're early to it.