Economic Freedom, and the New Beginning - Restructuring World Society

I wanted to thank @blueerthangreen for putting me up to this, and asking me to write this.
To quote his article (not sure who said this first):

"Cryptocurrencies will do for economic freedom what the internet did for delivering information."

Posted for July 4th:
https://steemit.com/money/@bluerthangreen/economic-emancipation-how-money-is-created

This article crystallized for me a few things I have been considering in my own life:

Like the web, I had to see crypto in action; it was hard just to read about it and understand it!

First reading about the web, it amongst a long list of early internet protocols, so they only listed one possible browser; Mosaic. Then there was FTP, USENET, and a few others. It just got lumped in with the others..

"Sounds good, have to try that some time..", was my initial reaction to something that changed my life for decades to come ;-)

But the point is, not until I fired up a Mac, and installed Mosaic, set up and fixed the networking to the internet and entered my first URL (Yahoo?), was I really clear what the WWW really was. I had to see it work. I had to grasp it's power firsthand to comprehend what was coming. And as soon as I saw it working, I knew, everything was about to change.

First the internet, then the web, brought to me fantastic opportunities, and allowed me to build project after project, and be well compensated for it. It completely changed my life, because I recognized it, was an early adopter, and brought to me much opportunity.

Then bitcoin, the original invention in so many ways!
I had read about it in wired magazine. Sounds good, I'll have to look into that some time.. heh.
I fiddled with it, ran a node, mined some LTC.

And traded BTC with people I met on craigslist - in parking lots on smartphones. I started to grasp its power. I had not stepped foot in a bank, and I had just made a currency exchange. With almost no fees. No bank involved. Not Paypal.

It sort of felt like a drug deal at first, except I was meeting very lovely, literate people that I did not find threatening.

And over time, over a few interactions, we started to form a small basis of trust, even though it was not required to transact business. At first just 1 BTC, then 10, then...

Now enter Steemit.
An entirely new field. Stake your claim. Fence off what you can patrol and maintain, and it's yours. You own it.

For me, the ultimate coupling of this software of value, married to a community to create a new culture. And largely the app handles the finances involved automatically. One need not understand what a blockchain is, but rather appreciate it's value and how it can be harnessed.

To go a step or 2 further here:

Cryptocurrencies will do for economic freedom what the internet did for freedom of information, by routing around the federal reserve and USD (unipolar government).

Social media creates a situation, where our government can no longer lie to us daily through media they control.
This media right now, largely controls what we should believe about our reality.. and central banks largely control us by harnessing us to a debt that can never be repaid.

By cutting these bonds, we route around governments for our sense of purpose in life!

This in turn helps humanity completely restructure society, as it resolves how human life could best complement our own planet Earth's needs, as well as stop using violence as a mechanism of control.