Probably the case. If you were using a public VPN setting from your browser/phone, then that could be it, too. I have run into that, before.
This is a "yes and no" scenario. We could win, but the problem lay in the same problem that all partisan militias face.
Who is going to walk away from home to face battle? Very, very few people. Organizing movement will also be difficult. I am willing to fight - but how do I get to the locations we need to fight? Drive there myself?
Realistically, I would need to be deputized under a faction of the military which has separated and has more equipment than manpower. The civilian capacity for troop movements is not nearly as developed as military.
The military itself represents a rather hard target that will take dedication to crack. While many bases are not designed to be transformed into FOBs, again the civilian transport issue becomes a problem. If we were to launch an assault on the nearby airbase, it could be done in terms of raw numbers, but getting the people into place from just a radius of around 30 miles would be a logistics nightmare and this would lead to, very likely, a sporraddic and ineffective attack which would cost the lives of the few willing to launch such strikes.
About the most sound strategy is to band together locally and tell the government to fuck off and get out of your lives. The challenge then becomes trade; resources and maintaining acceptable standards of living to prevent subversion of interests. Doing this at the state level would be far more effective and could allow for the NG to be deployed defensively alongside partisan fighters to repel federal intrusion.
I have my criticisms of bitcoin, but have a technical understanding of it, as well. Bitcoin has more privacy issues than it does security issues, since thr public ledger allows tracing of all transactions. If someone paid you with bitcoins earned from theft, for example, then investigators could determine that x amount of bitcoin you have was from stolen property. Which means it is not fungible.
It also doesn't support more advanced features like auto executing contracts or other such nice things.
Which is why I prefer Monero - xmr. But all of these only have value so lojg as the integrity of the internet is preserved and they can be used for practical trade.