Great questions. First, I believe satoshi is a think tank. Not a person

Second, I don't have an opinion whether the blockchain was designed so we could usher in the cashless age. I think it was more inevitable. It was destined to happen one way or the other.

Personally, I am okay with government regulation to protect consumers. (MtGox). It is a necessary evil. But I have wondered about some of the same things you talk about regarding implicit designs that were laid long ago.

I am mixed on that, having watched the failure of other decentralized currencies and government reaction to them prior to blockchain. But I am open to many interpretations of how thkngs progressed the way they did.