1) Bitcoin is the cockroach of moneys. It can't be killed so long as there are ride or die bitcoiners anywhere in the world to keep it going. I think we have surpassed this threshold some time ago. In the past year we have seen rapidly accelerating adoption in Nigeria and India, two of the most populous and important countries in the non-western world. This trend will continue everywhere in the world that suffers from authoritarian fiat currency regimes in direct proportion to the level of monetary authoritarianism imposed on their populace. Eventually the trend will become obvious even to those with their heads in the sand. Furthermore, the game theory of bitcoin adoption will eventually divide any coalition of governments that forms to oppose bitcoin. Let's assume for argument's sake that China and the USA manage to put aside their differences and declare jihad on bitcoin (highly unlikely but this is a steel man after all). Meanwhile the rest of the world is steadily orange pilled from the bottom up and begins to actualize the massive benefits of adopting a common, neutral, global standard currency. China and the USA both start to see their global influence decline. The first one to break with the coalition and join team bitcoin will gain a big advantage over their rival. How long do you think an arrangement like this can remain stable? Not long IMO. The same game theory applies to any coalition, whether it be Western states, Eastern authoritarian regimes, or any combination thereof. The cockroaches will inherit the earth. 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 2) Bitcoin is people. I think of bitcoin as a superorganism exactly like an ant colony, or perhaps a nest of cyberhornets. Each individual is incentivized to flock with the swarm. Ants that wander away from the colony are doomed to certain death. Bitcoin nodes that support an incompatible set of consensus rules get forked off and their coins lose value, trending to 0. Bitcoin's strength is it's resilience in the face of any threat. Bitcoiners implicitly understand and perpetuate this strength through the cultural value of intransigence. It is nearly impossible to move the entire superorganism in a direction that is harmful to the whole. By the same token, if an existential threat such as quantum computing were to arise then bitcoiners would immediately rally to update the protocol to protect against this new threat. There are a number of quantum resistant cryptographic signature schemes. Bitcoin developers (including many (most?) of the smartest and most accomplished cryptographers and distributed consensus experts in the world) need only rally around quantum resistance as the most important thing to work on and you'll be wowed at how quickly we can adopt a consensus change. People think consensus changes only ever get more difficult because they spend all day embroiled in twitter debates. I think the block size war illustrates otherwise. In the face of an existential threat the swarm will react as one to protect itself. If there is dissent from within, those individuals can and will be forked off and left for dead. Again, the game theory wins out in the end. As an individual cyberhornet, I don't necessarily need to be on the winning side of any fork debate. My UTXOs will exist on both chains after any fork so I can HODL, wait and see, allow the betting market that is the price of bitcoin determine the winner. I am protected so long as I flock with the swarm. This is the way to a more free and fair future for all humans and their progeny. Cyberhornets don't fuck around. We don't compromise. We stick together. And this is why we will win. Have fun staying poor.