If we enable drastically improved organization & real time coordination between sovereign communities without loss of free will at the crossings, could that effectively improve the odds of a Goliath type adversary seizing the vacuum? The ability to quickly decide and mobilize through compressed arbitration means small powers can weave themselves into great powers very quickly when the environment and conditions are laid before the storm. As for sound money, I agree. A little thing people don't consider though is that the grassroots advantage is that sound money is really just sound exchange when you cut away the BS. The more we localize, the more this becomes apparent and you see where money isn't the thing you really needed. Communities typically cap this free exchange at 250 people unknowingly because of the way our brains work, we just can't really remember how to trust people when it grows beyond that. That's where trusted "credits" can be circulated to map to real time efforts and assets. Time is money after all. There are lessons of this working and failing of course, but technically speaking this is getting much easier to enable in a decentralized way. Bitcoin tackles a lot of this, but not all of it. People aren't spending it. Their "credits" are worth more than their time. Its great for the future but not functioning in the eye of the storm. This is where the solutions I see may include other native assets without an issuer being the actual credit exchange mechanism. I'm trying to break things down pragmatically but I meet a lot of emotional resistance with those ideas before we can map the divergences because "bitcoin and everything else" is pretty rooted with blind spots.