There will be a window of opportunity to wrest value out of the hands of the entrenched before a new regime finds a way to entrench itself.
I understand what you are saying and have considered that a possibility also but I really do think this time is different.
Without wanting to derail this thread very much more I'll explain why ...
Software is just about as close as you will get to the realm of pure ideas made real. Clearly regulators, beholden to entrenched interests or not, cannot regulate free thinking and just as mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics and other abstract sciences are true free markets software manifestations of these fields are also free to spring forth unhindered, except albeit by the dogma of their own fields. Now with bitcoin, the invention of new monetary products and abstract fields like mathematics have collided, manifest as a software product, ready to function in the physical world on the internet. There really is no future that I can envision where this genie can be put back in the bottle. Whatever regime holds sway will forever know that they are but one bright idea away from obsolesence, regardless of what congressman, or media conglomerate they have on their payroll. Money has now joined the realm of free thinking, the war of ideas is it new home, and battleground.
This for me is the most fundamental shift that bitcoin provides, monetary science has become an applied science field and finds itself plonked down right between computer science and applied mathematics, the internet is its laboratory and programming geniuses skilled in cryptography are its practitioners.
