It is the latter and you are right with this. Until then I'm happy to pay my groceries with Monero. Where else can you do this?
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At a small shop of your choice where you talk to the owner.
Big busineses will always be an easy attack vector for the state.
And just like Thomas Sowle said: to change the laws you must change the incentives of the politicans...
Good point. It's is a step in the right direction.
I am pointing these things out to start a discussion hopeing that someone will come up with solutions.
Currently I have to conclude that Ayn Rand was right. The only way to truly change society is by making society embrace a new philosophy.
But is there a short cut? Or maybe a more efficient way to do this?