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 That example isn't unique to bitcoin alone. It applies to all KYC'd "crypto" including monero. 

I mean, thats one of the reasons bitcoiners have this HODL culture. In most countries there IS a capital gains tax from spending bitcoin. So why would one spend it when they could spend their worse money first.

There's an argument that this kind of thing might be good as it shows why noKYC often comes at a premium but its worth it. 
 Yeah but if all you do is HODL KYC bitcoin, then how's that really improve people's freedoms?

It's not getting people off banks, which is the real issue.  It's not private.  It's just a new gold ETF.

Cryptocurrency is unique to stop fractional reserve banking.  Just helping with inflation can be done with anything.  People could hedge inflation with gold ETFs and it would be similiar