Totally agree. The way western governments are heading, it's hard to imagine solutions like Monero don't catch a bid. A gresat listen indeed. I just visited his webpage which is pretty good too. But Ashigaru makes sense if you have non-KYC bitcoin imho. If your stash is kyced, and mostly for hodl, why bother ? But I agree, acquiring non kyc bitcoin and using privacy preserving tech like Ashigaru is paramount.