1. privacy was never overstated; just loosely referred to. it's more private than a centralized system. want privacy? use cash. it will always have a purpose.

2. the founder(s) political opinions are worthless. what was the political affiliation of the guy who invented the wheel?

3. you generalize the whole community as a bunch of basement-dwelling fat nerds like mark karpeles, who want to privatize the profits - and socialize the losses.

4. you have made a bunch of assumptions about the future based on a bunch of what-ifs?

5. you stated that you have no dog in the fight - because you don't own any coins. maybe if you had some, and were invested in it, you would see things a bit diffrently.

6. it's not about bitcoin. if governments started to use a similar protocol for money monitoring - we the people could create our own.

7. your concerns are old, have been addressed before, and are becoming tiresome.

8. and you said it yourself - you're a noob.


and most importantly: the constitution of the US did not become a weapon of the establishment. by circumventing it - it has become useless.