You wrote about the housing bubble, I wrote about cash money. You wrote about theoretical licenses, I wrote about that you practically own something.<p>Example: I buy a DVD, I can play the DVD as many times I want until it physically breaks. I some states it&#x27;s also allowed by law to create a backup copy in case it breaks. And while you are allowed by law to do things, it&#x27;s not possible with new paradigm like used in Win10, John Deer traktor or Tesla S car - so even if you are by law allowed to do things like sell your own stuff, you simply can&#x27;t do that with such dongled stuff that also tracks you all the time as extra bonus.<p>And it&#x27;s not about electronic cash per se, it&#x27;s about centralized systems. I am unsure about Bitcoin but it sounds at least better than a system controlled by the state. Anyway cash money is still the way to go. It&#x27;s like electronic voting, at the moment there is no realistic way to build a system that is secure and also don&#x27;t record who voted what and making it easier to mass-manipulate votings - that&#x27;s why still many states disallow electronic voting or reverted back to voting on paper. Of course many lobbyists from voting machine manufacturers would say the opposite.