Interesting angle. I wouldn’t put words in his mouth but I interpret it that he was eluding to the need & onset of natural decentralisation without actually saying so.

The building blocks did not come in the pursuit of money. That’s what I would say. Encryption, PoW, the internet itself were not designed to recreate money. Bitcoin on Day 1, arguably was not yet money.

Gold coins didn’t magically appear pristine in their final form under the dirt. Man chose to turn the shiny rock into pocketable stores of money and wealth that lasted for hundreds of years. It took deliberate action to turn gold into practical money just like it took foresight to package the ingredients that bitcoin has into the SoV it is today.