Today we have all these surveillance measures. Some of them are partial surveillance, others are surveillance from start to end. While we are fighting the pandemic and the incredible influx of uncertain information, surveillance is taking over our privacy "step by step" as our president Klaus Iohannis says, privacy becoming therefore an idea, a definition from the past.
This paragraph in particular put a chill down my spine. I've often had a feeling that the newer generations will wonder what this concept of "privacy" was, and why some people thought it was so important--and by that point, privacy will be simply an abstract idea and not something that exists anymore.
I never thought of bitcoin as being an enemy of the state, any state. I never figured it would overthrow the banking system or any of that, so I haven't exactly become disillusioned with it as time has passed.
Anyway you laid out your thoughts pretty well, OP.
Unfortunately far too many people are in Bitcoin for the sole purpose of getting rich.
Only a small fraction of people actually transact daily in cryptocurrency, rather than using it for speculative purposes.
Yeah, so? Bitcoin would be nowhere near as popular as it is if it didn't offer the possibility of making a profit. That's a good thing. If bitcoin were a stablecoin, pretty much nobody would be using it as long as they were still able to use cash, their smartphone, or a debit card.