You don't exercise logic guy.
By your thinking China should NOT have such a successful communist ruling party over billion plus people and possibly over the entire world population.

Numbers mean nothing unless you command a FORCE and can take over crucial infrastructure/institutions such as communications, ports, power grids and in today's world... supply chains and global networks of corporate power.

DO WE CURRENTLY NOT LIVE IN A WORLD where these are clearly in chaos due to global power conflicts?

People are just data now and even if billions of "self governing" individuals become all engaged in crypto.. BIG BROTHER is WHO grants access to established markets, access to assets and holdings of wealth.

All they need to do is CRIMINALIZE transfer of cryptos that become actually disruptive..

And then place themselves so that THEY SOLELY control the UTILITY / VALUE.

And then what?
What the fuck are numbers when all you have is numbers. No power over infrastructure. Holding digital information only.

And NO, "HODLERS" don't control internet/information.