Once you give people power, it’s almost impossible to take it back. It’s kinda like a one-way street. Think about books - you can’t just hand out millions of physical copies to everyone. But once they’re digital, in an app, suddenly anyone with a phone can get them for free. And when people realize that, they don’t need shelves of books anymore. Everything just collapses into a file they can carry around and share. And of course, once they have that kind of access, they’ll fight to keep it.

Same thing’s starting to happen with property. You don’t really need ten plots of land in different places to feel secure. If you can hold property digitally on your phone, transfer it instantly, actually own it yourself… that becomes priceless. And once millions of people “get it,” they’re not gonna let go. It’s basically irreversible.

Bitcoin is like the clearest version of this - property that’s been boiled down into pure digital form. Portable, simple, low-energy. Think of water frozen into ice, all that energy is locked in but easy to carry around.

Once this genie’s out, no one’s putting it back in the bottle.

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Wrong. It may have sounded great and brought warm fuzzing feelings to write that, but, no, that’s not how it goes, not if history is anything to go by. Freedom is a process, and never an unopposed one. I read your ebook analogy and could only think of the time Amazon deleted *1984* (ironically enough) from thousands of devices.