Your point of guns is a perfect example to @taskmaster4450le of..

POSITION OF POWER.

The people DO HAVE THE POWER in the gun saga because that gun is literally FIRE POWER (FORCE) that CAN hurt and even destroy government power.

On holding crypto however,
The people only hold the information.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE CRYPTO LIVES ON.. is NOT in the hands of the people.

Even on some feel good utopian system such as Spk.network, the underlying infrastructure again.. IS NOT in the hands of the people. @starkerz himself has acknowledged this, that the technology to put the WHOLE SYSTEM in the hands of the people DOES NOT YET EXIST. In other words... "We are still only selling a dream."

It's a delusion to think crypto is independent and safe outside of the system.. when it literally operates as a layer onto/dependent to THE INFRASTRUCTURE of.. the system.