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how much of a key role do you see more people using Bitcoin playing in defeating communism?
This will be a centuries-long debate. I think the financial advantages of Bitcoin adoption are important but not decisive. The decisive factor, in my view, is that Bitcoin clarifies the moral argument at hand, because we're defending a functioning ledger and not an abstract policy proposal. It clarifies the moral argument.
We could have demanded that the government adopt a fixed supply monetary policy. It would have been clunky and centralized, but it's conceivable. But then we'd be stuck in a doom-loop of asking our enemies to help us win.
So instead Bitcoiners built their own currency that, at the very least, is working "to scale" as far as the users themselves are concerned. It might seem like this is an isolated move that concerns us alone. It's not. Because to the collectivist, our business is their business. All of our accomplishments are lost revenue to them.
The whole surrounding world twists and breaks in surrender to that 1% of the population that refuses to bend to the rest.
This is a lot of what it feels like the storyline in A Lodging for Wayfaring Men is shaping up to be. I'm excited to see how the story deals with it.
It sounds like the important factor here is fixed supply money. I don't have any trouble imagining a government that agrees to a fixed supply, but still wants to control how the money flows. So I find the important factor to be censorship resistance. They are certainly related (I'd say fixed supply guarantees proceed from censorship resistance) but regardless, I like your point about the reality that Bitcoin exists in the real world, and that the collectivists now have to deal with it. This is something I don't think I appreciate fully.
The whole surrounding world twists and breaks in surrender to that 1% of the population that refuses to bend to the rest.
If this is true, then there is quite a lot of hope for this freedom project.
People have to have an authentic interest in bitcoin first - that has to drive them. IMO its more intrinsic than external.
who is the biggest critic of Milei?
other libertarians
Normies aren't inherently anti-freedom. They have no agency. They outsource their thinking to historical precedent and institutional power.
Keynesianism became the default opinion because FDR supposedly defeated fascism. All we have to do is beat communism, and the normies who survive will wholeheartedly embrace Austrian economics.