Bitcoin is a tool, but a very basic one at that.

I saw an interesting post a while ago that went like:

"Bitcoin was specifically built for Crypto-Anarchy. You can use a hammer however you want, but a hammer was built for hammering."

A hammer was 'invented' probably as a weapon, a tool to process food and to build by breaking stones, bones, and others in order to create stuff of the pieces rather than to put them together, so the question becomes then, "what is hammering, other than using an hammer?"🤭

Jokes aside, Bitcoin is rather a stick, a handle then a hammer 🤔 at least if you think of it as a tool form.

For whatever goal Satoshi Nakomoto might have had in mind to write the Bitcoin code (not argumenting it was not for Crypto-Anarchy), Bitcoin the tool is the mix of its history, adaptation, network, (of course also) the code, users and even possibilities in usage.

Being a stick/handle is what makes Bitcoin the only relevant "cryptocurrency". Even though anyone can copy the principle of a stick, put any head on it to increase its functionality, it will still be a stick with a tool on top. Without the stick (or a shitty one) the tool itself becomes less efficient ( it doesn't necessarily becomes useless).

The stick will need a fulcrum to be used as a lever, needs the hammer head to hammer in nails, or the axe-head to cut wood.

So when you consider your stick to be used as Ancap money (or for Crypto-Anarchy), you need the right 'head' to make it so. A lot of people don't have the combination of skills and will to use such a tool successfully. But they might have other uses for the stick that are lost on those that are able to use Bitcoin as Ancap money, this all without taking away your option to use the tool at hands still for Crypto-Anarchy.

That is the real strength of Bitcoin: It is the handle-stick that makes increases the usability of the tool you are in need of. It is the lever-stick that helps you to use the fulcrum your work.

Imho, Bitcoin has no goals, but is the best handle for leveraging the tools and your work into attaining your end-goal.

#MeshtadelMushings