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There are plenty of people in the world who do understand money, power, territory and I bet they'll figure out how to use Bitcoin. That's not great to hear if you don't, but maybe that's the challenge bitcoiner's need to hear. If you don't learn to understand it, your coins will naturally flow to those who do.
The thing about people with lots of money, power, and territory is that they really don't need bitcoin. The meme of bitcoin being for the downtrodden is what has bitcoin tapped out now. The rags to riches meme doesn't work, and the people with power do not need bitcoin because they make power work for them, they do not need tools to oppose power.
Michael Saylor is not powerful. He runs an incredibly lousy SaaS company. He is within the bitcoin universe, but not broadly powerful. Nor is high status to future elites.
Bitcoin will become a tool to take powerful people and make them more powerful. It will increase inequality. When that becomes the mimetic focus, the pursuit of power and excellence, with the notion that bitcoin refines power into something less degenerate, then it will begin to catch on outside its bubble as get rich money for outsiders.
Bitcoiners have extremely little vision for projects in the world quite ironically and seem to not want to become powerful, or perhaps 100% of those who do simply have good opsec, but I doubt it.
The childish notion of libertarianism and EQUALITY is quite like communism. It assumes that a de-monopolization of violence means they are on an EQUAL footing. It is similar to the sloppy notion of mutually assured destruction and the view that 1 nuclear bomb is EQUAL to advanced nuclear capacity. To think access to certain capacities for violence equalizes is not too far off from thinking 1 bitcoin is about the same as 1 ethereum. Even if you imagine a perfectly liquid market for violence, it could end up being like being able to buy lots of quadcopters that are geographically limited by physics. You want the power of many ants? Anyway, the typical bitcoiner has no interest in power, they at best imagine a world where they become the new nobility, but rarely ever shape the world today.
The bitcoiner libertarian in fact is the biggest dependent on the Government State there is, yes, far more than an immigrant on welfare who has 100% of his life subsidized. It is true. The immigrant cut off would go about his life. The Bitcoiner, on the other hand, well, if the State one morning ceased to exist, wouldn't the Bitcoiner all of a sudden cease to exist too?
The thing about power is it's actually not too difficult to get near people around the top, if you are actually doing interesting things beyond the money itself, which is not the thing itself. If bitcoin were to catch on among a subset of elites, given its supply shock driven price movements, one might expect the market cap to be higher. Perhaps we will see a trickle in over the next several years as and if war ramps up. It's funny, it seems war might be the only thing that stirs the powerful. One might wonder, if bitcoiners are such geniuses, we don't they get into the military industrial complex? If they don't like the petro-dollar why don't they build the econo-bitcoin rather than gleefully escaping life in decadent fashion.
That people threw a fit at my original post does not mean I wrote it well. See, unlike the bitcoiner, I will not be so quick to congratulate myself every turn. That having zero reactionary replies would meant I wrote poorly does not imply any reaction means I have excelled in the objective. I must keep going, you see? I am not to be a lone voice, nor do I wish to own any sort of movement, it will be sort of fractal in nature... the refinement of the Bitcoiner, shall precede the refinement and restoration of the world.
Quite right, there is no rush, and there is no rush for me to write well and inspire either. Things will shift in their own time, but the resources needed are in the styles of thinking, not in "guides" and such.