• The firearm world has the same problem. There are firearm enthusiasts who aren’t 2A, NRA-sticker extremists, but they’re a minority.

    Satoshi’s objectives are still admirable. It’s unfortunate that Bitcoin was based on POW, which have turned out to have strong negative ecological impacts; and there was a hard miss in the design WRT anonymity, but the concept - which you aptly summarized as digital gold - was a good thing.