So true.

The very existence of alt-coins is a real, and growing threat to the status quo.

Until the birth of bitcoin, it was not even possible to consider such a direct challenge. To attempt to produce any form of 'coinage' independently of 'official' currencies would have been an invitation to rapid arrest & prosecution. Perhaps even execution, in some parts of the world!

For me, the supreme irony of the current situation is that - even though most alt-coiners would probably admit if pressed that they are 'in it' for no other reason whatsoever than trying to make a little 'extra' money to use in the real world - by the simple act of taking part in this brave new world they have actually become revolutionaries, foot-soldiers in the war against the stranglehold of the global banks & their fiat currencies.

The bigger our world becomes, the more of a threat to the powers that be it becomes.

'They' have VASTLY greater resources - financial, politic, legal, etc - than 'we' do. Right now we are no more than a small cloud of flies buzzing around a herd of elephants, hardly even an annoyance to them. All they have to do is flap their ears and we are sent tumbling.

If our world stays small, we won't see any worse than we have seen in the last year - half-hearted 'slap-downs' from (especially) China & the Feds.

But, if we continue to grow as we have been, having more & more impact on their ability to monopolise the act of converting what we do into what we want & need, the 'attacks' against us will become more targeted, more vicious, more public -

- Just like what has happened to every fledgling religion in history!

Christianity, for example, only survived by being absorbed into the power structures they fought against, becoming a mere tool of the oppressors for the last 1600 years.

THAT is the real fight that's coming!

What are YOU doing to prepare for it?