Then They Fight You: Bitcoin and the United States’ Fiscal Crossroads
IntroductionScholars dispute whether it was Mahatma Gandhi who first said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” What cannot be disputed is that advocates of bitcoin have adopted the aphorism as their own.Bitcoiners commonly prophesize that at some point, bitcoin will replace the US dollar as the world’s predominant store of...









