I find it amusing that you consider the internet "on your own" like there isn't a gigantic investment being made into that infrastructure that even enables bitcoin in the first place.
Do people who are in to Bitcoin think intermediaries solely exist to extract value from transactions? There's actually a service being provided.
Well let me be the first to invite bitcoiners to rejoin us back in reality where the internet isn't. If the entire argument of the bitcoin community is "providing an alternative to fiat currency" and they can't, what's even the point?
The internet IS NOT neutral. Never has been, never will be.
The argument here is that the protocol itself is independent and can run on the internet like bittorrent, IRC, SMTP, XMPP etc. This is not about the physical laws and resources governing the internet.
The protocol cannot be separated from the physical infrastructure required to carry it out. Until Bitcoin separates from the internet itself and shows it can actually fund the infrastructure required to maintain it... don't see what the pull is.
