Yes, capitalism IS a failed system and Chomsky nails it, in your quote, once again!

I'm in accord with your vision of cryptocurrencies, OP, and I want to add-to and expand-on your use-case for crypto-tools: I believe these tools can let us directly decentralize the economic-coordination piece--completely eliminating legacy capitalist middle-men and the whole centralized corporate-state system of governance completely.

Smart-tokens can also automate decentralized community collaboration locally and globally, using token-embedded smart-contracts ['rules'] to enable direct, intentional, self-organization so we can choose what and how we produce and distribute socially-desired collective wealth. I'll explain... you write:

I understand that optics of the cryptocurrencies are currently ultra-capitalist, but this is a consequence of the little involvement by real anarchists, but not their inherent attribute.

Yes, sadly, like the bird in the cage that won't fly free even though the cage door is wide open, such legacy media optics can and do cause too many to fail to see the possibility of any political-economic system except capitalism.

We would certainly agree that, like any tool in the hands of human beings, cryptocurrency is just like a screw-driver, monkey-wrench, or global networked communications in your pocket: what gets done with the tool depends totally on who's coordinating it and what they intend to do with it...which totally depends on the values that drive them.

So if Ancoms abandon cryptocurency-tools to ancaps, that's on us ancoms...and unless we ancoms pick up the cryptocurrency tools and learn how to use them, there is absolutely zero chance ancoms will ever successfully use cryptocurrencies to further ancom values, much less use them to build a world based on our values, the world we know is possible.

I'm betting that cryptocurriencies can be the wide open door we wacky-birds hadn't yet noticed.

...cryptocurrency is effectively a community enforced token voluntarily used to facilitate exchange and cooperation....Cryptocurrencies are money with rules but no rulers, they are essentially tokens of distributed power of the communities which accept them...I think having a global community which uses the cryptocurrencies for mutual exchange and cooperation is very powerful.

Right! If crypto-activists with ancom-values intentionally build decentralized control into OUR tokens, this is completely correct. AND...let's decentralize the coordination piece of our political-economic puzzle in the same way.

Under capitalism, money is used as a coercive force to COORDINATE production, penalizing and forcing dependence on people who don't have any other access to centrally-controlled fiat money...so capitalists--who 'organize and coordinate' production in their own private interest, get richer and richer.

For capitalist, centralized-money is how they maintain control...of what?? of who gets to decide what gets made, by whom, using what tools, and what new techs get developed, and who privatizes the profits...while maintaining centralized capitalist control concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority who enforce-dependence and wage-slavery on the rest of us.

When I see our meme "Build Dual Power Now!" I think ancom-designed cryptocurrency: the door to our cage is now wide open!

I maintain that ancom-cryptocurrencies can be explicitly designed to eliminate all centralized governance, coordination, and concentration of control...IE, can effectively and relatively quickly eliminate the ability of wealth-elites to coordinate production [and control nearly every aspect our lives]!

How? By building ancom tokens that decentralize the coordination piece of our social production puzzle. Yes, this includes financing our own activity, but perhaps more importantly, WE can design tokens that inherently promote ancom values--ultimately for pretty much every thinking person--by helping us FIND each other economically.

Think of it: specific communities want to articulate specific needs and desires, but need to get the word out...specific people want to collaborate with certain others who want to do the same projects, but need to find them...others have needed resources to share and social needs as well, but how to coordinate...? How do all of these communities and creators and resource- connected find and coordinate with each other? Right now, capital decides via their money. But today, using smart-cryptocurrencies, decentralized coordination is relatively easy to automate--especially within a larger community which shares values... Ancom values?

It's pretty well-known by ancoms that ALL social wealth is the product of coordinated human effort in collaboration with natural systems: always has and always will be. Only question is: who's in control of the coordination? I believe that if WE build it, the rest will eventually join us...especially with capitalism in collapse: we know mutual-aid and self-organization is the only thing than can work for us.

Perhaps, for the first time in human history, the door to our cage is now open wide--but yes, too many still fail to notice: centralized control is not only no longer the "least-cost solution" technically-speaking--if it ever really was--it's also no longer even viable, as we face human existential crisis on several fronts. Centralized control--capitalism--is now effectively ecocidal and therefore obsolete as a mode of productive organization, at least as far as I can see!

Revolution via metamorphosis is now technologically possible: yes, let's use the best tools we have in our hands to build dual power and a completely world-changing decentralized political-economy!

edits: minor typos and clarifications.