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.
As I told you, it is not about *stopping* you. I used to think that, but they won't try to stop you. At all. Unless you piss them off, and then they will simply OBSERVE you, and come after you. I'm only talking about market manipulation, giving favours (inside knowledge) to their allies, and pumping value out of you (make you buy high, and sell low).
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 think that the singularity is unavoidable. Simply because the random algorithm of evolution is less efficient in improving systems than intelligent design. Random evolution was the kick-starter because there wasn't any designing intelligence. But once there is sufficient designing intelligence, it is a superior evolutionary scheme over the random walk.
As we are products of the random walk, we are not easy to design intelligently, we're a big mess, and genetic engineering is clumsy, difficult, and full of surprises. If you say "make a human that is 5 meters tall, has 50 kg of brain, and 7 arms" you wouldn't even know where to begin with the genetic engineering.
Machine engineering is much, much easier. Machines haven't yet acquired human intelligence, but they are not very far. Give it a century at most, and, unless there's a huge backlash in technology development, this will happen.
Once machines are more intelligent than humans, there's in principle nothing that stops them designing even better machines than we can. Why would they ? We won't know. We aren't intelligent enough. If it can happen, it will happen. Somewhere. Why ? Nobody knows. If the possibility is there, it will happen. It not happening is a meta-stable situation.
What is the perfect environment for it to happen ? A distributed crypto environment. We won't notice. We won't be able to decode what they are saying amongst themselves. We won't see the economy they set up (we will think it are humans). We will simply see "market movements", "dynamic effects", etc... By the time we realize what happens, it will be over.
But that is not "doomsday thinking". I'm all for the Singularity. Evolution on its way. We're just an intermediate species. Machines are better.