The final part of the book attempts to glimpse possible scenarios for the future, and also to encourage the reader not to remain a mere spectator. Bitcoin is a technology and as such has no opinion, but there are technologies that facilitate certain ideologies and technologies that facilitate the opposite. While facial recognition, GPS, smartphones, and many internet apps facilitate a Big Brother society, public-key cryptography enables privacy on the internet, and bitcoin, making use of it, provides us with the freedom to conduct uncensorable economic transactions.
The first two chapters of this part are short stories: brief works of fiction in the form of a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandson in the year 2084. The first is set in a country where the situation is analogous to that described by George Orwell in 1984↗, and the second is set in a future where bitcoin triumphed globally decades ago.
Whether totalitarianism or freedom prevails is not something we can decide only once every four years. We can act now, exercising our freedom every day.