Good article. However, what do you fight back against? It’s just a completely mental blob, everyone has lost the plot. Things will likely just have to fall apart further. The only saving grace is their inefficiency and lack of care about outcomes over virtue signalling and personal advantage.
Bitcoin, as the base monetary asset, must meet a higher standard for security and decentralisation. Other blockchains, many of which are moving to proof-of-stake, can operate with a comparatively lower threshold, since there is more room for optionality at that level.
But countries aren’t gendered, they may be oppressing them but that doesn’t make it patriarchal. Also, not all credit schemes are oppressive and often the leaders of the countries receiving the credit can be the corrupt ones oppressing the people of their own country and taking the loans to enrich themselves.
I can see how it would give women in that situation you describe more freedom, although I don’t know anything about Kenyan society and culture so I can’t comment on the specifics.
I don’t see how Bitcoin’s relationship to the current financial system has anything to do with gender. It’s about centralisation vs decentralisation, not patriarchy.
Who cares about UTXO ownership in Cashu? It’s not like you’re going to use it for cold storage. It’s a niche technology whose uses are emergent. Use it for what it’s good for.