It's tough when the state and elites both leeches off people. I think the goal of bitcoin is to spread the operation far and wide to overcome a single point of attack, instead of pursuing who has bigger balls to jack up the fees - ego wars never benefited mankind.

But I appreciate you and and I appreciate your perspective and thoughts, it's always a pleasure speaking to people who widen my perspectives. I think the more we can speak about the challenges in the real world, the closer we would get to finding solutions.

On a diff note, you might enjoy the exchanges Martti had with Satoshi, I think it's on his note here. For some reason, Satoshi was under the assumption Moore’s Law would kick in at full force to overcome the hash power needs. You and I probably built on the micro and millimeter range, but nanotech has been around for over 30 years so it's really great that Block picked it up in building the mining machines based on it. I don’t know how much it can decentralize the mining operation but that’s one solution to look forward to.

I think if we spread the operations and user adoption far and wide in terms of Bitcoin as money, and speed up entry points for the people before the gov’t catches up, we would derisk a lot of problems. But I might also be on the hopeful end of things.