The UK inflation number was a surprise. 6.7% vs 7% last month.

Personally, I think that we may well go into deflation over the next year. As the lagged effects of COVID work their way out of the system, prices may well turn negative on a year on year basis.

The one thing that the establishment doesn't want is deflation as that will increase the value of the debt owed. They will likely react with much more QE.

The road to surfdom many well be much longer than any of us expect. This could well be a good thing though as it would give us more time to build applications that make BTC easier to use.

A slow process of evolution would be far preferable to revolution.

Bitcoin is very difficult to stop. If I am running software on my computer that exchanges value with software on someone else's computer, then how can that be stopped? Would they come around to everyone's house and investigate what software we are running? Or would they shut down the internet in order to prevent us from trading with each other outside of the banks?

If they do shut down the internet, then we would have far bigger problems than there being no bitcoins!