> If you ascertain some value to the permissionless and self-custodial value of cash. And you see value in the internet's ability to connect the entire world. Then it follows immediately that you see value in cryptocurrency.
Those two separate sentences do not immediately team up to somehow lead to the third sentence.
> After all, most of HN audience lives in developed democratic countries where personal freedoms are considered fundamental pillars and protected.
As do most crypto proponents who imagine the world outside the "enlightened West" as barbaric lawless lands governed by roaming bands Mad Max-style.
Even though than we can take a popular online service that people pay for and see in which countries it's available. For example, Spotify says it's available in 238 countries and territories: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/where-spotify-is-avai.... It does not accept any form of crypto currency as payment. This means that people in these countries have enough financial institutions and methods, and enough security to be able to pay for an international music streaming service [1].
> Maybe one day they will tell you in what you can or cannot spend your money or where you can invest it and how much.
Or some day the Mad Max-style roaming gang will break down your door and steal all your cash. Or break all your fingers until you give them access to all your wallets.
[1] The number of ways people pay in various countries is staggering. See e.g. what Adyen (the payment integrator that companies like Spotify, Uber, eBay etc. use) has integrated with: https://docs.adyen.com/payment-methods/ and https://docs.adyen.com/unified-commerce/pay-by-link/supporte... and https://docs.adyen.com/point-of-sale/what-we-support/payment...
The complete willful ignorance and obliviousness that the absolute various majority of crypto proponents exhibit is no less staggering.