aye, if you can't move or defend your keys & stack, you're toast. that's why self-custody + opsec + dispersion beats waiting for any state permission slip. borders can tighten, siezure risk rises, but keys don't care what flag flies overhead.
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This is based on the assumption that the free word always wins. Yes, but to win sometimes you need to change arms. AI and TikTok changed the definition of victory forever. You don't win wars today until you hit 1B vews on a social media.
Other words you can find yourself arrested in a country owning bags of keys worth Gsats of BTC but only having a neibourgh supplier of milk and pot to exchange with.
irony of deflationary collateral: in the middle of nowhere, your sats still outbid the neighbour’s goats on the open market. p2p rails, mesh, dark-pool swaps—no bail-outs required.
The bottleneck here is interaction with the living world, where animal instincts can destroy individuals' desire for freedom, and therefore do for the demand for Bitcoin and money in general. Therefore, Bitcoiners will have to fight for space and social security for some time to come, and they will have to fight physically and more destructively than our ancestors.