Yea important to remember the nukes in japan weren't to win a hot war against japan, but to start a cold war with the soviet union. Bitcoin has that kind of chilling effect, in that it's so asymmetrically powerful that capital controls become off limits because they'd just boomerang.

Trump for example has already spoken to how he considers its price to be a proxy for peoples savings power. He wants it up like he wants the stock market up, so its already influencing policy from that standpoint. Everybody is subject to the game theory whether they think they're playing or not.