Same interesting points, i'll try to answer some of them.

As for the gold standard getting dropped:

I think people did not really have a choice, what were they going to do, riot? Even if they would riot, would it have mattered? I don't think so. Also, politicians most likely used a lot of propaganda to pull it of (it's what politicians do).

Also, the gold standard dropped during a time the world was either at war, or recovering from war, so people did not really want to get more trouble by standing up against the government, no matter how hard the government raped them. (I believe war and post-war times are the best time for governments to create laws to screw people, and tell the people they are needed and are only temporarily and than eventually the people will forget there was ever a time with better laws, for example, income tax since WW1).


As for the laptops, you only need a cellphone to use bitcoin, and more people have cell phones than people have bank accounts. Many people who want to buy stuff on the internet simply can't, not because they don't have money (well they don't have a lot of money, but still, they have a few dollars), but because they have no bank account, and can't afford one (note bank accounts are more expensive the less money you have!). Bitcoin might allow them to order things online, if even very small payments like food from a local store or whatever they want to buy.

Many poor people live in countries with huge inflation, if they have to choose between losing 10~30% of their purchasing power guaranteed each month versus owning a volitile (but often increasing) bitcoin, it would be a no-brainer.

Security may be a problem for poor people and technologically challenged people, but for those people there's webwallets (coinkite, coinbase, blockchain), i agree you'd have to trust a 3rd party and they are not as secure as a cold wallet, but hey, it's still better than a bank!