Oddbean

This is clear thinking. If we are in fact moving toward a panopticon society of oligopolistic control, then a system of laws is largely irrelevant. Non-participation becomes extremely important as does, as Chris states, storing valuables out of reach of the corrupt state. BTC serves this function well. Gold/silver also serve this function well, though not as perfect as btc. Unregistered private property in inaccessible locations is also good. Base layer skills (mechanic, gardening, building, etc skills ) are also unconfiscatable and make you more resilient/increase your community value. Essentially sovereign human type stuff. I'd be curious to hear other peoples' ideas on decentralizing ownership amid increasing corruption.

100%. I must say, I fall into "crowd-pleasers" when I use btc to refer to decentralized digital value exchange here as this is a fairly btc maxi environ. Certainly no hate whatsoever to the btc maxi crowd, but history has not been written, we don't know how this all plays out, and we certainly don't know what will be valued as money in the future. To that end, Monero is a great tool. Been mining it for years, been accepting it as my preferred method of payment at festivals for years, wish more people would adopt it.

For sure, I love using LTC as well, super fast, super cheap, reliable. It would be great to have a diverse ecosystem of cryptos exchangable on open source, decentralized protocols that offer native mixing. I think this is the beautiful promise of crytpo. I think btc as king (essentially like spendable gold) with many community-loved cryptos relating to it (btc) and one-another. Of course the many scam coins (usually POS stuff), will continue to be a thorn in the "credibility" argument posed by non-crypto types, but, inauthenticity has a way of shaking itself out over time.

Yeah we need to go back to the roots and build more tamperproof and resistant decentralised apps again. We've tried going down the KYC and AML rabbit whole but let's face it, those frameworks are as broken as it gets and they're simply not compatible with Bitcoin. Trying to squeeze BTC into frameworks which don't even work as a control mechanism in the legacy world, didn't work out. As for the "all cryptos are shitcoins", it's something the new generation of Bitcoiners has come to believe thanks to inFLUenzas like Saylor and other institutional cunts. Altcoins (not shit-tokens minted on 3rd party shitcoin chains) have always played a vital role in our space and they always will. For me, all cryptocurrencies aka cryptographic cash systems (including Bitcoin) are just currencies. Anything else is preference, fanboy-ism. There is a good amount of coins out there which have been around for over a decade and each of them has it's use-case or own utility. Yes Bitcoin is King and that's where the stacking is at but it doesn't hurt to own some other coins too. Anything is literally better than keeping fiat money.

Yep, yep, I think you hit the nail on the head here. It is frustrating to see people shit on altcoins that have been around nearly as long as btc, that use, essentially the same basic tech, and, in some cases an expanded protocol for specific purpose (ie: Monero and ring signatures for privacy). I sort of think the pendulum will swing back and many old school crypto folks will be put off by the institutional push of btc and desire a bit of balance in their decentralized tools/holdings. We shall see.