Eric is a former Top Gun pilot with first hand experience in their planning and coordination abilities. He has talked about how much Bitcoiners underestimate the state, and I agree that people believing the government is incompetent is the greatest psyop they ever pulled.

He does not believe however, as far as I recall, that that they (a small faction within the IC) created it. There is dissonance in this view.

This is a key indicator, Bitcoiners generally view its architecture as unstoppable, and it probably is... but if the state was truly hostile to Bitcoin they could wipe out 99% of Bitcoiners purchasing power overnight.

Few understand this is a feature for the national security state, not a bug. Self-dealing in the civilian government is a risk to national security.

Putting national security over corruption, or at least harnessing that corruption through a redirection of incentives, by the civilian government is exactly the kind of thing that makes factions within the government an ally and Bitcoin it's protectorate.

I highlighted the word sneak, Bitcoin is pretty private in personal amounts, but far less private than the legacy system for tracking the flows of nation-state or industrial scale sums that foster corruption and unrestricted warfare tactics that concern the natsec apparatus.

The state is just a citadel at scale, or at least its supposed to be, Bitcoin just gets it closer to that goal.