Da Vinci: If Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies hadn't been invented, I would say that in 50 years we would find ourselves in the Middle Ages. Honestly, I have not seen a way out of the impending disaster caused by fiat currencies.

Moral standards in the USA have degraded to the point of disappearing. Everyone wants to hang out, and as soon as the financial system blows up, everyone will be waiting for the government to solve their problems. This is a road to totalitarianism and oppression. One can trace a historical cycle that arises in a certain society.

You achieve success, you are rich and strong, and since you are so rich and strong, you create social programs. But these social programs are based on the theft of wealth from other people — they destroy society. Then come the repressions, religion kicks in — as everyone is oppressed and has no future except for a handful of people at the top. And religion turns the whole chain back, to another rise. Only for society to collapse again. I think that after we launch small applications on the blockchain, which will be based on even smaller applications, we will be ready to create a large viable project. And we will start building states on the blockchain.