There are two flaws in crypto you will never get around and governments after some hard lessons like this one will learn to take advantage of them.
#1 - If they raid your fucking house physically they can and will seize control of your wallet from your own equipment. They will seize your bitcoins and use them as they see fit. You won't stop them because you will be in cuffs or dead. If they for some reason like a password can't get access you will sit in solitary for the next decade until you give the password to them etc etc. Just like cash, gold, silver, artwork, etc, etc... they can and will just steal it from you. Go ask the 1930s Jews.
#2 - While it is true they can NOT control this type of currency or transactions in it easily they CAN control exchanging it to and from fiat currency. This gives governments far more power than you might think and in the long run unless our economies go through a very VERY radical change in the near future governments will restructure their fiat systems to corrupt, control, or flat out destroy all crypto. I'm betting they supplant and control it so it will be just another tool to fuck us over with.
All the OP proves is crypto has a sharp learning curve. Once they overcome that they will write laws and design systems to put it in its proper place, under their control. Nothing you or I do or say can stop that... except fixing our governments. New money systems fixes a symptom. It doesn't cure the problem... out of control government.
Yes... They can. However, you can still sell gold and silver to various sources in order to obtain the cash to get something. They can't and won't ban actual money, especially when they want that for themselves. But they can ban the existence of exchanges for crypto which makes it extremely difficult to legally use your crypto as a currency.
#1 isn’t a problem when you use full disk encryption with a strong password.
#2 isn’t a problem once debt based fiat currencies implode. Given that inflation is a feature and not a bug, that day will inevitably come.
#1 - If they raid your fucking house physically they can and will seize control of your wallet from your own equipment.
You ascribe near supernatural powers to those that kick in your door in the middle of the night. With a cold wallet being the size of a micro-SD or a paper wallet being a word phrase you've memorized how exactly are they going to find it? Further, if you bought crypto P2P cash, how exactly do the omnipotent powers that be know you even have it? The fear surrounding crypto is that despite attempts to stop its usage it is still able to flow around all .gov obstacles like they aren't even there. And the preceding coming from someone that isn't even a fan of it.
You clearly have never been questioned by a federal agent. I have. You also clearly have never had your house raided and searched. I have... Twice. Long story.
You think that password being only in your head is to your advantage. When they decide they are going to get that password you will be Jan 6th'ed into a deep dark hole until you give it up... and the location of that cold wallet. TRUST ME!!! There are worse things than being broke... and/or having all your bitcoin taken from you.
Maybe in the 1980s you would have been safe. In today's world the FBI does whatever the fuck they want and no one stops them. Crypto isn't going to fix that.
Sauce... See Jan 6th detainees.
You are a spec of dust to be swept away. That's the problem...
"New money systems fixes a symptom. It doesn't cure the problem... out of control government." I stand by this and nothing you've said has disputed it.
You can encrypt and copy your private key as many times as you want, so if gubs take one of the keys, they will not have access to spend said funds without entering the correct code.. When you are able to later, you can send your funds to another wallet later and repeat the proccess.
Opsec is important and you need to properly secure your funds from gubs.
Sure, you can move it, but can you spend it on physical goods? Bitcoin becomes rather useless to me the moment I can't turn it into gold or US dollars in my bank account or spend it at Overstock. And the US government controls the systems that an exchange would have to use to turn sold crypto into funds in your bank account.
Why couldn't you exchange crypto for goods directly? You don't need an exchange for that. The whole point of crypto is peer-to-peer commerce with no centralized third party interlopers.
If you can't go to a grocery store, or a farmer's market, or to your local tech store, or so on to spend it, what are they spending it on?
You can't pay employees in crypto if it's made illegal to do so, so stores wouldn't actually accept it.
So now you're trying to say that, you'd be able to trade it to someone else, who would then have to find someone else who both has what he wants and is willing to take a currency that can't be spent in any stores, and so on.
Congratulations; you are describing a non-viable currency with less intrinsic value than fiat in this situation.
There are two flaws in crypto you will never get around and governments after some hard lessons like this one will learn to take advantage of them.
#1 - If they raid your fucking house physically they can and will seize control of your wallet from your own equipment. They will seize your bitcoins and use them as they see fit. You won't stop them because you will be in cuffs or dead. If they for some reason like a password can't get access you will sit in solitary for the next decade until you give the password to them etc etc. Just like cash, gold, silver, artwork, etc, etc... they can and will just steal it from you. Go ask the 1930s Jews.
#2 - While it is true they can NOT control this type of currency or transactions in it easily they CAN control exchanging it to and from fiat currency. This gives governments far more power than you might think and in the long run unless our economies go through a very VERY radical change in the near future governments will restructure their fiat systems to corrupt, control, or flat out destroy all crypto. I'm betting they supplant and control it so it will be just another tool to fuck us over with.
All the OP proves is crypto has a sharp learning curve. Once they overcome that they will write laws and design systems to put it in its proper place, under their control. Nothing you or I do or say can stop that... except fixing our governments. New money systems fixes a symptom. It doesn't cure the problem... out of control government.
I'm not dooming I'm just speaking truth.
They can break in and steal your physical gold and silver assets too 🤷🏼♀️
Yes... They can. However, you can still sell gold and silver to various sources in order to obtain the cash to get something. They can't and won't ban actual money, especially when they want that for themselves. But they can ban the existence of exchanges for crypto which makes it extremely difficult to legally use your crypto as a currency.
Bitcoin is also way less private than cash.
It can also melt when antifa throws molotovs at your house lol.
Don’t broadcast your bitcoin assets, and if anyone asks, lie.
What's a Bit coin?
#1 isn’t a problem when you use full disk encryption with a strong password. #2 isn’t a problem once debt based fiat currencies implode. Given that inflation is a feature and not a bug, that day will inevitably come.
if we ever get to a point where the govt kicks in our doors to steal our assets then we have already lost
You sound like you fantasize about being powerless. Crypto is about human freedom, not sitting around feeling sorry for yourself
You ascribe near supernatural powers to those that kick in your door in the middle of the night. With a cold wallet being the size of a micro-SD or a paper wallet being a word phrase you've memorized how exactly are they going to find it? Further, if you bought crypto P2P cash, how exactly do the omnipotent powers that be know you even have it? The fear surrounding crypto is that despite attempts to stop its usage it is still able to flow around all .gov obstacles like they aren't even there. And the preceding coming from someone that isn't even a fan of it.
You clearly have never been questioned by a federal agent. I have. You also clearly have never had your house raided and searched. I have... Twice. Long story.
You think that password being only in your head is to your advantage. When they decide they are going to get that password you will be Jan 6th'ed into a deep dark hole until you give it up... and the location of that cold wallet. TRUST ME!!! There are worse things than being broke... and/or having all your bitcoin taken from you.
Maybe in the 1980s you would have been safe. In today's world the FBI does whatever the fuck they want and no one stops them. Crypto isn't going to fix that.
Sauce... See Jan 6th detainees.
You are a spec of dust to be swept away. That's the problem...
"New money systems fixes a symptom. It doesn't cure the problem... out of control government." I stand by this and nothing you've said has disputed it.
The only correct thing you said there is that crypto has a learning curve.
You need to get back to learning.
That’s why you don’t use the government money, just use crypto, no taxes!
You can encrypt and copy your private key as many times as you want, so if gubs take one of the keys, they will not have access to spend said funds without entering the correct code.. When you are able to later, you can send your funds to another wallet later and repeat the proccess.
Opsec is important and you need to properly secure your funds from gubs.
Not really. Not sure why you think you can exchange it for goods if they cracked down on exchanges. Automatically a major flaw.
Sure, you can move it, but can you spend it on physical goods? Bitcoin becomes rather useless to me the moment I can't turn it into gold or US dollars in my bank account or spend it at Overstock. And the US government controls the systems that an exchange would have to use to turn sold crypto into funds in your bank account.
Why couldn't you exchange crypto for goods directly? You don't need an exchange for that. The whole point of crypto is peer-to-peer commerce with no centralized third party interlopers.
Because how do you have value to that?
If you can't go to a grocery store, or a farmer's market, or to your local tech store, or so on to spend it, what are they spending it on?
You can't pay employees in crypto if it's made illegal to do so, so stores wouldn't actually accept it.
So now you're trying to say that, you'd be able to trade it to someone else, who would then have to find someone else who both has what he wants and is willing to take a currency that can't be spent in any stores, and so on.
Congratulations; you are describing a non-viable currency with less intrinsic value than fiat in this situation.
Do you have a link to that message?
OMG! The replies in the Twitter thread says it all!
Beautiful!