Thanks for being honest.  I inferred that you see it as a duty (and a self-serving one) to destroy an autonomous solution which threatens your sponsorship in even a modest way.

Throwing your weight behind a solution like XT which is pretty much guaranteed to end up augmenting rather than threatening anything about the public/private (state/corporate) partnerships which animate our fiat currency systems makes perfect sense.

The systems you champion with it's gigantic web of derivatives and such are getting due for the re-set which is part of the formula.  Tough break for your side that crypto materialized out of the ether when it did.  I don't blame you for trying to neutralize the threat, but I'll do my best to see that your efforts won't succeed.

While I am drifting off-topic and into the metaphysical, let me add that at this point we are all just playing pocket-pool.  It is in the recovery phase when the rubber meets the road.  Without something like crypto, whatever the state decides to re-build will be what the masses have to accept.  With crypto and some of the 'elements' that the Blockstream guys are working on, there are viable and preferable alternatives for a variety of functions currently performed by the state and they go far beyond just money.  That should put the fear of God into your run-of-the-mill statist.