(Disclaimer: I wrote this response before I realized this was a link; I thought it one of those, "Ask HN" questions so I replied in turn. Upon reading the artic

(Disclaimer: I wrote this response before I realized this was a link; I thought it one of those, "Ask HN" questions so I replied in turn. Upon reading the article I think comment still has relevancy.) No. Give up illusions like your rights exist in some vacuous transcendental place outside of other people and society. Read, "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes or if you really want to get the, "tarian" washed out of your soul dig into Rousseau's, "the Social Contract." I will state this over and over: "The Divine Right of Individuals" is a myth rooted in how the United States' constitution is worded. God isn't real and he can't give you rights and claiming in a court of law (made up of people) where evidence is of the highest concern, "God gave me rights and I'm a sovereign unto myself do to certain unalienable rights which I cannot obviously or readily demonstrate without making an appeal to hundreds of years of political development" doesn't seem a compelling enough reason for society to release a suspected criminal or the like. Meta: The fundamental fallacy with crypto is that it ignores that the vitality of, "currencies" is quite like the vitality of languages vs their counterparts, dialects-- What makes distincts a dialect from a language? Borders and armies. It's a tough pill to swallow that the world is kind of fundamentally based on violence but once you get past what is sometimes referred to as, "Democratic Peace Theory" and have a sense of history (start with Thucydides) it becomes very hard to take the idea of cryptocurrency seriously. Digital payments have practical value. I think that's about the extent of it. Trustlessness is a character defect and a social mallady and it doesn't surprise me nerds see this as forward movement.