With governments and big tech aligning to suppress our rights, the constant propaganda working in their favor, and the focus recently turning towards bitcoin and other similar tech, what is giving you confidence?

I believe that it will probably survive, but that it's going to get bad. There will be a coordinated attack to either tear it down, regulate it in such a manner to defeat its intentions, or make it so toxic to the general public that it will be useless.

I know that there will be developers and proponents working to hard to combat the above. But, it will most likely be won by widespread adoption, and and people just ignoring dumb rules.