It is actually something more than money, as we know it ... (it's money Jim, but not as we know it).
Bitcoin will succeed regardless and because of "dog-food vomiting libertarians."
The socialists and statists will not be able to overcome their greed and yearning to have the best money and information technology available. They will use bitcoin in spite of themselves. We will shove it down their throats and they will ask for more hard currency. True Liberty has never come about through pretty means, palatable to the braindead masses.
"Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
(Hopefully in an online world all this blood-letting is purely figurative ... but "they" got the guns so who knows?)