Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Say a king wishes to support a standing army of fifty thousand men. Under ancient or medieval conditions, feeding such a force was an enormous problem—unless they were on the march, one would need to employ almost as many men and ani­mals just to locate, acquire, and transport the necessary provisions. On the other hand, if one simply hands out coins to the soldiers and then demands that every family in the kingdom was obliged to pay one of those coins back to you, one would, in one blow, turn one's entire national economy into a vast machine for the provisioning of soldiers, since now every family, in order to get their hands on the coins, must find some way to contribute to the general effort to provide soldiers with things they want. Markets are brought into existence as a side effect.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

There is no pure free-market economy.

I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.