You seem to assume that people will forever regard NSA as legit? Once they lose that in the eyes of enough of people, it does not matter even if we move back to eternally-logged Bitcoin, they cannot do anything.
Using sufficiently-hard to decipher communications may be a way to force them to use such draconian methods in their action that no one wants to work for them anymore, and the critical mass of people will wake up.
But also if they realize they have pushed you over the edge already, you are already a lost case, and often such people are left alone because any repression towards them will just ignite them to self-preservation mode which is contagious in the era of social media. For these people it might even be an asset to leak their stuff over to NSA so that they can readily observe that the person is interested in his financial privacy and better world, and is not fomenting an armed rebellion.
This assumes that the NSA is the biggest threat arising, out of the United States, to personal freedom and liberty and that includes financial freedom. The evidence points otherwise as private sector organizations such as the NFL (National Football League), MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) etc., post a much greater threat. A good list is those organizations and corporations that supported SOPA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_the_SOPA_and_PIPA. One must also watch those organizations that withdrew their support under pressure such as Apple. The fundamental problem here is that the only effective way to protect "intellectual property rights" is to centralize control over computers and devices such as cell phones and tablets away from their owners and into the hands large corporations such as Apple and Microsoft. This is typically done by using a combination of propriety software at the operating system level, DRM and the fact that the majority of the population are not "nerds" and thereby less aware of the threat and less likely to fight back. Centralized control of networks in the hands of big telecom also another way, so battles over net neutrality can actually become battles over personal freedom and civil liberties with big telecom on the side of tyranny and oppression.
There are crucial lesson here in the Snowden leaks. Most of the NSA spying depended on the data collection habits of large corporations as best demonstrated in the PRISM program. A list of the the corporate enablers can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#mediaviewer/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg. One of the simplest routes to privacy and individual personal and financial freedom is to withhold personal information from the corporate enablers.
Some of us that "have been pushed over the edge" use GNU/Linux as their primary desktop OS (less than 2% of the population) root their Android phones in order to lock out the manufacturer and telecom provider, consider Apple's IOS only suitable for the telescreen in George Orwell's
1984, avoid social media such as Facebook etc. Crypto currency such XBT and XMR becomes part of a portfolio of tools and not the only tool used to enhance personal freedom and privacy.