Sounds like it'd work out for people who are willing to go to extremes but what about the average person?

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They will stand on the shoulders of giants, but only when their ego allows them to. Privacy and self custody tools will improve in the meantime.

Eventually, the alternative will be more inconvenient. Not today, but in the future:

- Bitcoin will be necessary because it is the only way to keep up with your neighbour.

- Governments will overreach and declaring everything will cost you dearly while no one else does it.

- The effort to protect your bitcoin activity will be less than the consequences for not doing it.

If a person has to risk jailtime or their lives, they won't use it unless they're a radical with nobody that depends on them. That's my concern with the concept. Hopefully it will never get to that point but I'm just speaking in theoreticals here.

But many still do, a very good example is the prohibition where many just went underground.

Never 100% adoption until the alternative collapses or the government consedes and capitulates.