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On the other side are the sovereignists—nations, corporations, and individuals—aiming to free themselves from dollar dependency, banking bottlenecks, and centralized control. They see permissionless, self-custodied assets like Bitcoin as an escape hatch from a system that extracts wealth through layers of synthetic claims and control.
Bitcoin’s disruptive influence wasn’t necessarily its price movement but the realization that it could serve as collateral within legitimate capital markets, effectively challenging the old narrative and amplifying the war for financial sovereignty.