You don't understand how disruptive technologies work.
Please, can you not mindlessly repeat Antonopolous slogans like they actually mean something? Antonopolous is just a salesman or religious evangelist. The internet isn't some wild west where you can get away with whatever you want. The state rules the internet and most sectors of the globe are censored already.
You have your head too far up into conspiracy theories. The state doesn't rule the internet, I can do pretty much what I want on the internet as long as I don't break the law in my country. Actually I can even break the law if I want, but besides downloading a few movies and series perhaps I'm not interested in doing that. I know there's massive surveillance on the internet and this is indeed a problem. The people who created Internet realize now they have made a mistake by not having encryption built into the protocol and are careful to not make the same mistake twice with crypto. Antonopoulos is in fact correct and knows the pitfalls quite well.
There are only two endgames for bitcoin, either the state bans it or co-opts it. The mining pools are such enormous physical attack vectors that they can shut down Bitcoin just as easily in the physical domain as the digital one even if you were able to magically camouflage all your Bitcoin packets.
Bullshit. They shoot down a mining pool or two and before you know it decentralized mining pools will have become the standard. Bitcoin can and will easily adapt to this attack vector. They can't shut it down, sorry I just don't agree with you here.
The next option is of course co-opting it. To do this, all they're going to do like I said before, is create a static address, alias system wrapper that goes around Bitcoin and sign laws that you're forced to use it or be considered a criminal launderer. Then once they have everyone on-boarded, they will divorce the alias system away from the native Bitcoin unit into their regular old fiat system run by the state with the bonus that they were also able to ban cash in the process to totally lock you in their system.
This is possible, but only if we let that happen. Starting a physical war and picking up some guns and start shooting isn't going to cut it. We need to educate as many people as possible and create awareness, without sounding like crazy conspiracy nutcases the likes of Alex Jones. This does require we stand up and fight, but not with guns. If 80% of people say we don't want your private centralized digital currency, we want our p2p decentralized Bitcoin then they won't be able to stop us. The crypto age is still very young so we have some time still. Mainstream media is already losing its following pretty fast, and I predict this is going to continue as more and more people start following independent media and making up their own mind about things.
For the 5000th fucking time, Ted Kaczynsky was right and increasing technology always leads to loss of freedom. There is no way around it whatsoever no matter what your original intention was. The only way you're getting any freedom is by operating solely in the physical space (transacting in a fungible substance like metals), not digital, because the state never has the resources to monitor every square inch of the earth, but they can easily do so for the digital space!
Going back to physical currencies like gold and silver is not going to help at all. Besides the digital cat is already out of the bag, we're heading towards a digital currency future whether you like it or not so you better start investing and fighting for the right one right now. Spreading doom and gloom talk about Bitcoin is only playing into the cards of TPTB as they prepare their own version for the masses. You can not escape this by selling gold or silver to the masses instead.
All you're really doing is making it easier for the state to enslave and destroy you. Bitcoin came out before the era of them trying to ban cash at every second of the day. The thing you should be afraid of right now isn't the possibility of a bitcoin ban, it's the fact they aren't trying to ban bitcoin at all!
You overestimate the state's intelligence and organization. They barely have a notion of what Bitcoin is, they just know enough that they want something like that too except they want to control it themselves. Obviously this is going to be a fight into the future, but I'm not one to say beforehand that we're going to lose this fight.
