It could also be politically useful for the opposition. If he were dead, you’ll hear about it when it becomes politically necessary.

“Why not a “Q-mini” with a Qwerty? “

The people have spoken!

Needs a ‘qwerty’.

You're describing the ‘mass formation’ Mattias Desmet warned about. An atomized, anxious population found new meaning in the collective. The masks came off, and just like Mao's Red Guards, a new mob was born.

These epochs coincide with nation-state insolvency.

Unfortunately, those who conform like Asch's subjects will likely always align with the prevailing power structure. The only way to make them conform to truth is to become powerful. Yet we all know power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You're focused on the wrench, but you're missing the scale. Gold's physical nature makes it inherently susceptible to mass seizure through the very custodians meant to protect it; i.e. banks and vaults. A single act like Executive Order 6102 can wrench gold from an entire nation at once. That is the most efficient wrench attack of all.

Bitcoin, by contrast, forces power to attack the person, not the asset. The state can no longer seize the network's money with a single decree; it's reduced to trying to beat a password out of one person at a time. Bitcoin wins hands-down against gold with one's power to secure their property. This fundamental difference in security is why Bitcoin is superior to gold as a store of property.

That's a convenient redefinition of "the network." You're admitting the wrench can't force the code, so you're claiming it can force the human. That's not an attack on Bitcoin; that's an attack on a person.

By that logic, a wrench can force a general to launch nukes, so the wrench is more powerful than the nuclear arsenal. You haven't forced the network; you've just mugged a person. The fact that this is the best the "ultimate power" can do is the most powerful testament to Bitcoin's strength.

‘Network effect’ is a valid premise but your conclusion is only a partial derivative.

At least cattle can say they truly didn’t have a choice.