Well said. I appreciate the thoughtful response.

Your second point especially resonated with one of my current concerns with bitcoin. I believe the ‘strong position’ in this example is holding/using non-kyc bitcoin, but pretty much the whole industry has been a frog in boiling kyc water the last few years.

Paper gains on kyc bitcoin won’t matter if you can move it in the future ‘turn-key’ tyranny world that Snowden talks about.

Today’s bitcoiner’s should probably read ES’s memoir ‘Permanent Record’ before ‘AoW’, but that’s just my two sats.