If we want governments off our backs, we need to quit being so hyperfocused.

The battle here is not just over Bitcoin and the Blockchain. It's about who's going to control the economy. The question isn't just what we can use Bitcoin for, it's also what we can do to support other up-and-coming technologies that could wrest control away from centralized authorities. I mean stuff like Uber and AirBnB as opposed to yellow taxis and large hotel chains that have a stake in maintaining their current effective monopolies. It might require cashing out a little Bitcoin to pay for a ride (or, business idea, start a "ride sharing for Bitcoin" service), but if you choose Uber over a yellow taxi when you absolutely, positively need a ride someplace, you're steering money away from the monopoly that yellow taxis have enjoyed and toward a more decentralized model that they've called the "sharing economy". That helps a potential future ally and gives the "sharing economy" more of what it needs to thrive, and you get the benefit of a chance to tell an Uber driver about this cool new way to accept payments for his "ride sharing" side gig.

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