Aight, this is bad. Very bad.
So 1) we are locked in to online systems for everything (tax, healthcare, etc.) with digital ID and 2) now governments are starting to make our digital devices into a surveillance prison from the first boot?
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I think the US has tried to take pressure of the dollar whilst trying to maintain just trust it, but it seems this game is now coming to an end. Now it looks like the dollar has bottomed against a lot other currencies (f.e. euro, pound, cny). I'm personally considering a US dollar wrecking ball scenario as likely, as it would make the burden on making interest payments on the US debt possibly too large.
bitcoin asks humans to do something they are historically bad at: tolerate long periods of stagnation and drawdown in exchange for a future that feels intellectually certain but emotionally distant.