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My conclusion, based on 45 years of living in the United States and watching just how rapacious it's government is, is that it will happen at some point. I am of the opinion that the bitcoin protocol and community are resilient enough to withstand it, but saying that it cannot happen or even that it's unlikely seems too complacent. But adoption will have to reach larger scales by quite a lot before they feel that threatened. Right now it's a diversion and cause for some concern to them. That can change. We want that to change. But we should NEVER be complacent when dealing with something that can potentially break a 500 plus year stranglehold on monetary exchange.
I'm going to say something that may sound crazy to most people, but in this decades we could see governments become obsolete, if they aren't already, having a wide perspective of things. Corporations are and will be always more the center of our world, leading progress and innovation and it seems to me that already now it's just a matter of time until they have more power than governments. Just think how much progress in artificial intelligence will increase in the next decade, just take a look at some of the projects from IBM on smart cities or Watson, or Google with its translator and facial recognition alghoritms. These are just small pieces of what will become a big picture some day. Why should we need a government then?
And Bitcoin is one of those pieces. This could be the longest bear phase we seen so far, but I ultimately believe cryptos are part of the future. Bitcoin couldn't have come at a better time.
Being an anarchist, it don't seem all that crazy to me. But I don't really want to see a corporate oligarchy either, but rather decentralized enclaves of people voluntarily cooperating. Corporations in their current form are able to commit great abuses because they are legally considered a person via a state charter. Juridical persons should not exist. Without the State, Corporations lose that advantage, and must compete fairly, even given their scale. They cannot, for instance, maintain protected monopolies (which contrary to popular propaganda is one of the biggest reasons for a corporation to exist) nor prevent others from bringing innovative competing products to market. Ending the governments will level the playing field far more than any revolution or "reform" ever could.
And I totally agree with your last sentence
