In the world, there are always mercenaries to serve dictators. Dictators will pay these mercenaries from your stolen bitcoins. A dictatorship with a money printing machine is a soft dictatorship, and a dictatorship with weapons is a hard dictatorship. If one day the statesmen of the world cannot rule over you with money printing machines, they will do it with weapons. Even now, we can name many dictatorial countries in the world. Democracy is a fragile thing, it crumbles with lack of resources.
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😅 I'm not even sure if democracy exists anymore.
Mafia is what you’re describing, not dictators.
Good luck going door to door getting BTC from people with multi-sig setups in more than one jurisdiction, multiple accounts with different passphrases, when you don’t even know what or if they have any.
And even if that did start to happen, people would move their holdings to complex multi-sig, multi-jurisdiction where it’s untouchable via violence en masse.
And that’s assuming people with resources didn’t organize to defend themselves which they also would.
I’m not against gaming out some worst-case scenarios for which to prepare, but the baseline should be — how am I going to impose my will on the corrupt and unjust state, not how is it going to exploit and dominate me.
Yes, we can look at the matter from this angle. In fact, I imagine the worst case scenario and you the best case scenario.