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Bitcoin is, above all, agnostic. It serves anything, and anyone, with no regard for who users are or what their intents might be, provided they play by the rules — <a href="https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-et-interviews-anti-authoritarian-technology/" target="_blank"><em>rules, not ruler</em></a><em>s</em>. What one may see in the network, protocol and currency is a context-dependent Rorschach test: one person’s rat poison is another’s meal ticket. While legacy financial institutions are fuelling a wave of social media deplatformings through the ever-expanding <a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/theres-no-downplaying-the-impact-of-operation-choke-point" target="_blank">Operation Chokepoint</a>, Bitcoin rises to prominence as a tool for the marginalised, ostracised, oppressed and forgotten. It enables any human to develop a parallel means to transact and store wealth and, as time goes on, the ways and means of using Bitcoin grow in variety and quality. There is no doubt that volatility in BTC-fiat crossrates make external measures of cryptocurrency value vary wildly, and obviously downside risk is not helpful especially when you are putting your life on the line. On the other hand, when national currencies undergo hyperinflationary events Bitcoin can be one of few accessible <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-bitcoin-inflation-cryptocurrencies.html" target="_blank">havens of relative stability</a>. As of today, <a href="https://hackernoon.com/reaching-everyone-are-stablecoins-the-answer-to-bitcoins-volatility-2a0649215465" target="_blank">stablecoins are not the answer</a>.