> Bitcoin has as of now failed to do in anything of the many things its true believers want it to achieve. It's already successful. First of all: simply by ena

> Bitcoin has as of now failed to do in anything of the many things its true believers want it to achieve. It's already successful. First of all: simply by enabling new methods of civil disobedience and eliminating future opportunities for government overreach it is already working to strengthen our democracy. Second, people are actually using it today to escape oppressive currency controls in certain places like Argentina. And there is real potential for Bitcoin to act as an inflation hedge that is much more convenient than gold (we have yet to see the long-term price behaviour).