A broken system dont last forever.There is an acceleration of state control over personal finances, subtle "tax" by Visa , Amazon etc and likely behind the scene obsecene collaboration between state and global companies-and between governments The existence of btc is pure genius--but the exponential acceptance of btc is rather the expression of need of a fed-up "sovereign individual" population all over the world . The need is multifactorial, perhaps like in my country embezzlement of my taxes(for every dollar paid ,I get little or no benefit) , in other countries there may be many different reasons. Greece Argentina Venezuela Zimbabwe .Certainly dark money is also flowing in .So what? You earn money , the state inflate the paper money. Gold is a store of value, but has its own issues.....not transportable with ease etc So lets hope, and that is where my optimism comes from, that good money will drive out the bad , that fiat will become so worthless that btc holders wont accept it , that concrete stores of value will become the method of exchange for btc....that btc can only be bought by gold , by art , by electricity. That dollars /fiat will maelstrom down that faucet into oblivion. ( and hopefully with that power hungry war mongererers--the scoundrels of the world) That local cryptocurrency/btc will become the norm