Fair.

I suppose then that it isn't quite accurate to say "For bitcoin to win, you want the attackers to succeed."  But more accurate to say, "For bitcoin to win, you don't want the attackers to be stopped through the internal mechanisms of bitcoin itself."

> Society isn't truly free unless wrongdoers can never be caught and punished.  Because if they can be caught and punished, then anyone can, and thus no one is truly free."   Or somesuch.

Nah disagree with that. I want them to be caught, like any other thief unjustly taking others stuff. I just don't want the monetary system/regulatory state catch them at the gatekept use of their spoils. 

Just like I don't want mafio dons flourishing, I don't want Pablo Escobar to be caught because the gas station refuse to take cash and he doxxed himself with a credit card

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For bitcoin to win, truly, you kind of want these attackers to succeed. Money that can’t be stopped and can’t be traced, can’t be in any way clawed back or thwarted. (I refer you to the “Unstoppable” entry in your closest dictionary.)

I don't really agree with this.  It feels like 

, because if you take the logic to the extreme you're kinda saying,

"Society isn't truly free unless wrongdoers can never be caught and punished.  Because if they can be caught and punished, then anyone can, and thus no one is truly free."   Or somesuch.

I suppose this is why I still don't ever call myself Libertarian with a capital "L", only that I lean libertarian.  Society without any kind of effective justice or law enforcement at all, imo wouldn't be able to function; or, put another way, it wouldn't want to be a society I'd want to live in.

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> For bitcoin to win, truly, you kind of want these attackers to succeed. Money that can’t be stopped and can’t be traced, can’t be in any way clawed back or thwarted. (I refer you to the “Unstoppable” entry in your closest dictionary.)

I don't really agree with this.  It feels like *reducto ad absurdum*, because if you take the logic to the extreme you're kinda saying,

"Society isn't truly free unless wrongdoers can never be caught and punished.  Because if they can be caught and punished, then anyone can, and thus no one is truly free."   Or somesuch.

I suppose this is why I still don't ever call myself Libertarian with a capital "L", only that I lean libertarian.  Society without any kind of effective justice or law enforcement at all, imo wouldn't be able to function; or, put another way, it wouldn't want to be a society I'd want to live in.