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Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

Chris Liss 1y ago

This sounds right, but might it be a futile fight on their part? Imagine creating a weapon that if you fight it, the fighting itself only strengthens it. How do you fight something like that?

Maybe they are only still fighting because they don’t know what they’re up against and that they’ve already lost.

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