I just don't think it's the time yet for 'hyperdemocratisation', I think that will come some time in the future once adoption has picked up more.  We need to deal with the existential threat to bitcoin, which is that governments will misunderstand it, and slam misguided regulation on the transfer of funds in and out of the virtual currency space, based on a combination of paranoia, lack of education, and lobbying from the big players in the existing financial system.

I agree that the core bitcoin protocol can't be regulated, but the protocol itself without any links into the existing financial system, will fail and just not get the widespread adoption that bitcoin needs to succeed.  I think you're letting your idealist long-term vision of a world where everyone transacts in bitcoins peer-to-peer and taxes are gone because it's the community funding community projects based on merit, the legacy financial system is dead and buried, cloud the short term goals that are more important.

As such, we need someone who will engage fully with the US government, not someone who is saying 'trying to implement it into the regulatory framework of the legacy financial system is an absurd' and hope that the banks who are refusing to open accounts for bitcoin businesses understand, or that the momentum will pick up enough in isolation that it becomes inevitable - it won't.

Will