Bitcoin is the only path that has a chance of righting the wrongs committed by statism/fiat. Other paths exist, but they all fall short. Bitcoin is it.

But that doesn't mean we get to control how the state responds. The state exists for the sake of power. Everything else is just advertising - power is the point. They won't relinquish power willingly.

When enough people understand that bitcoin makes them uncontrollable and use it in a sovereign way, the state will respond by using force in a concentrated manner - as it always does. It can't strike millions of dispersed individuals. It will look to infrastructure. It will say you can't receive a payment from employment unless its to a registered wallet, and it will require association of biometrics with a registered wallet (they'll require submission of an xpub or whatever equivalent on a second layer). Then it will mandate that point of sales transactions be done via software that they approve, which will only allow biometrically registered customers to buy, while sending taxes automatically. Then it will criminalize unregistered wallets.

This is one of the ways we could get the mark of the beast. A cbdc would be more direct, but we could still get it even if bitcoin succeeds in every imaginable way.

I'm not saying it has to play out like this - only that this is a predictable response. We will need a lot of people in useful positions to avoid it. States will have to assert their sovereignty. There's hope... Personally, I'm hoping one of the Eurasian empires goes full cbdc before hyperbitcoinization - that would give the US something external to oppose, using our judiciary to full effect to keep us away from that crap.