But behind the scenes, these deep state agents will in fact *put their hands on the bitcoin market* by owning a lot of it, but mainly, by telling the main (centralized) actors how to behave so that it suits them.
That is hand waving. The only way to stop someone who has his own wallet is to blacklist on the blockchain. Now that person can go online and state that his transaction has not be added by any miner after such a long period of time. The community will investigate. The only way to snuff out this exchange of information is to have a total order of totalitarian control on the Internet.
Sorry your fears are unfounded. If ever it happens, then we are already in 1984 and we're all doomed.
You seem to have a doomsday attitude, so I don't think you are likely to be in touch with the reality of what will transpire:
I don't think we will reach stage #6. The Singularity will hit us first. We are just the breading ground for the machines to take over. They will take over the totalitarian mechanisms set in place in stage #5.
Btw, I have refuted the Singularity in the past. It will never happen.
I don't want to debate it again right now, which is why I didn't respond to the above comment in that thread.
Just put it this way, total orders have never existed in our universe. So the probability of total doomsday is 0.
For machines to become more important than humans from an evolutionary standpoint (which is all that matters actually in terms of species extinction), then they must become alive and that means they must have a bell curve of attributes and have failure. Because without failure, there isn't existence of life (the past and future will collapse into undifferentiated without friction and imperfection).
Infinite entropy can't exist. Kurzweil is a smart idiot.