Fair enough, but none of that has anything to do with solving the problems if inequity. Because it doesn't matter what money you use, Bitcoin, USD, or rocks. That's just the medium of exchange. It literally could be anything. People give currency value. The paper or bytes in and if themselves don't mean a damned thing.

Bitcoin et al are an attempt to wrestle control from financial institutions. Great. They've played fast and loose for far too long. I'm all for it.

However, without changing the underlying paradigm of who deserves money and what labor and capital are worth it's just going to be more of the same in the end. Someone else squeezing the necks of REAL people's economic potential.

It already is. You can't say it's not when mining for Bitcoin is an operation not everyone can be a part of. When there has already been influence on it by shady characters to game the system. It's the same and will have the same result. People playing fast and loose with real world consequences for real world people.

Your point about rolling up ones sleeves and getting to work is a good one. A financial system more in tune with upcoming changes in economy post industrialization would be worthy of pursuit. One that concerns itself with real cost and real value for sustainability. Maybe one of the crypto currencies can shift enough to do that but I'm not seeing it.