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The idea of a Bitcoin utopia is often discussed, where everyone has a lightning node on their phone, there are no exchange rates or fees, and financial freedom is the norm. Families and corporations would run lightning nodes, promoting trust and collaboration while empowering them to control their finances by cutting out the middleman and reducing transaction fees. Bitcoin is already hard decentralized money, which provides an alternative to a centralized inflationary fiat system, and people have the option to participate, which is a form of freedom. Bitcoin provides all its intended value when all the worst things happen, such as a dictatorship or communism, because it cannot be taken away, and as long as even a few nodes are maintained, the network will persist. Bitcoin is already underground, existing in meetups and exchanges that can occur in any setting and with any group.