I absolutely want the 'peasants' to have good solutions which isolate them from abuse by the established financial sector and their hired gun enforcers in the government. I'm a peasant myself after all and only hold some BTC by happenstance (and because I've been studying the mainstream financial scam for years.)
I see distributed autonomous sidechains as the best way to both protect Bitcoin from subversion of various types AND to provide the peasants with robust solutions which are tuned to their needs.
I am completely practicing what I preach here by the way. I use Bitcoin for only high value transactions which I've not done for over a year, and I pay currently 0.01 BTC as a fee since that was worth it for the service I get. I am greatly looking forward to using various sidechains for various purposes in real-world-land.
Do you also send just one E-Mail a year since you don't want to exploit the nice people, who let you use their E-Mail-Servers?
The e-mail thing brings up a really good point about why I feel as I do.
To answer your question, no. After the 20,000 spams/day and I capitulated and just switched my MX over to Google. Now they spy on everything anyone writes to me, what mailing lists I'm signed up for, etc. They aggregate it with data they have about my searches, drive contents, etc, then sell this aggregated data to the highest bidder. And it is a very strong bet that they hand it over to the government at least when they ask and probably when they do not.
I feel so strongly about keeping Bitcoin out of the clutches of the likes of Google because adding financial data to the mix gives them that much more power and me that much less privacy.
This more than anything is why I am so focused on keeping the blockchain small and widely distributed. Using it as the foundatin of a subordinate chains ecosystem is the only practical way I can see for this to happen.
Yes, I'm sure that Google would run a sidechain if/when that ecosystem is developed, and yes, I'm sure I would use it for much or most of my activity. But not all. It would be at _my_ digression. I would use other sidechains for other purposes when they are more suitable for the task at hand, and some sidechains would be purposely designed to be a black-hole to those who are nosy about my business and want to monetize my being.