I am definitely a big fan of yours, and I am glad you reposted this. I saw a post a little while ago from @cryptos about this very subject. There is a window within which a post expires, it cannot any further be edited, and it cannot be brought back to the surface. But if it is a good post, why not repost it.

I consider the entire cryptocurrency world to be a kind of asymmetric act of warfare. It is not really going out on a limb to say this, the famous Satoshi even spells it out to some extent in his White Paper that destroying the power of corrupt people, especially in banks and politics, is the objective. We now here sit looking at a legacy of this. Yes, people make money on this, but we cryptofiends are a small part of the population. We are starting to make inroads on making it commonly understood what we are doing, and I am sure there is many untold stories of how cryptos have enabled people aiming to destroy the Status Quo, but it has a long way to run yet.

It should not be neglected to point out that it wasn't that long ago that cryptography was classified as munitions and this put a big brake on the advancement of internet security. Even computing power had been classified at one point, famously used as a marketing schtick by Apple Computer when they, in partnership with Motorola built a CPU that exceeded the definition of 'super computer' (thusly a munition) at the definition at the time, which was 1 gigaflop (1 billion floating point calculations per second).

To answer the big bold question at the bottom of your post, absolutely, cryptocurrencies are instruments of warfare, but they were adopted early by anarchists, and not the old school 'propaganda by deed' style socialists, but by the modern anarchocapitalists. I count myself in this group and I am also very much in support of the use of cryptocurrencies to prosecute warfare against, especially, the centralised banking system, the main enemy of cryptocurrency.

It should not be a surprise then, recent news, that a consortium of banks has developed a cryptocurrency based system that allows them to do payments without having to put them through correspondent banks in the USA, mainly because these bastards charge so much for this privilege, and have no verifiable stake in the process, they just take a cut, like gangsters, or tax collectors.

We are winning this war, already, because on our side is the brains and genius that devised this tactic in the first place. They, the establishment, by definition cannot get the labor of the people who are already deeply embedded within the cryptocurrency world, and it has now grown so big that it would take an unaffordable inducement to make any of them cross over.

Besides this, the whole battlefield layout changes becouse of cryptocurrency. Talking about the difference between big and small forces, engaged in warfare, cryptocurrency allows a headless system of organisation, a chain of command that is completely decentralised and unpredictable. Insurgencies in the past always still had heads. Now, the heads are intangible principles.