Very interesting. The Roger Ver guy doesn't sound like a random target.
Make no mistake. This indictment has nothing to do with tax evasion. It’s a witch hunt against a man who turned his back on US wars and malicious foreign and domestic policy. Roger is a supporter of Julian Assange and press freedom not just with words but with actions. He’s a popular speaker at crypto events around the world where he educates people about the injustices caused by the US Govt.
Roger spoke out against mass surveillance, endless wars and the murder of innocent people for profit. He funded many good causes against US imperialism and that’s why they target him. At every opportunity Roger spoke about why he left his US citizenship behind and a wave of successful Americans followed his example. The US Govt has lost hundreds of billions because Roger was leading the way for many successful entrepreneurs who followed his example.
This is a malicious attempt to vilify Roger and to punish him for exposing and opposing the crimes of US empire.
For sure, but I would say the timing is not random either. There is a lot of punches and counter-punches being thrown in the Financial theatre of this war, and I think this has to do with the DS attempts to take control of BTC.
They already took over BTC a long time ago. Roger was on the forefront as he saw it happening and tried to stop it. He just released a book about it - Hijacking Bitcoin.
The fork was the result of the Core developers refusing to increase the block size and insisting on implementing changes that a lot of people disagreed with (Segwit). The takeover was already complete by that point. They could not destroy Bitcoin so they made it useless for its intended purpose and made sure it could never scale to support the whole world. Segwit was necessary to support the Lightning Network, which is just a secondary banking layer that acts as a parasite to the miners (LN fees go to node operators, not miners). If not for the fork, Bitcoin would have been permanently altered with no way to undo the changes later. At first they promised to increase the block size as well, but afterward reneged on that promise. That was the point which Roger lost faith and began supporting Bitcoin Cash.
Just want to point out that Proof of Work is not the same as "created out of thin air". All bitcoins were produced from consuming energy. There is an actual cost (in electricity) to mine and produce new BTC.
Some other cryptos did away with Proof of Work because they said it's wasteful. Okay. But the alternative is trusting a central authority to manage the ledger honestly, or trusting an elite class who already owns most of the supply to be benevolent, and we know how that goes.
No, it isn't.because it is not made of, or backed by, any physical commodity. Gold is hard money. Prior to some time in 1968 US Silver Certificates were also hard money, because the paper certificate could be redeemed for silver.
It's the hardest money on the planet. It can't be diluted or over produced. It takes work to produce it. Look at the amount of energy, info and time it takes to mine it. It's a store of value.
What makes gold a store of value? It's bc we agree it has value. Think about it.
Very interesting. The Roger Ver guy doesn't sound like a random target.
For sure, but I would say the timing is not random either. There is a lot of punches and counter-punches being thrown in the Financial theatre of this war, and I think this has to do with the DS attempts to take control of BTC.
They already took over BTC a long time ago. Roger was on the forefront as he saw it happening and tried to stop it. He just released a book about it - Hijacking Bitcoin.
Over the target!
During Segwit fork?
The fork was the result of the Core developers refusing to increase the block size and insisting on implementing changes that a lot of people disagreed with (Segwit). The takeover was already complete by that point. They could not destroy Bitcoin so they made it useless for its intended purpose and made sure it could never scale to support the whole world. Segwit was necessary to support the Lightning Network, which is just a secondary banking layer that acts as a parasite to the miners (LN fees go to node operators, not miners). If not for the fork, Bitcoin would have been permanently altered with no way to undo the changes later. At first they promised to increase the block size as well, but afterward reneged on that promise. That was the point which Roger lost faith and began supporting Bitcoin Cash.
Bitcoin BAD, Federal Reserve fake money GOOD, both created out of thin air, WTF
There are limited supply of Bitcoins. The limited supply fulfills the Supply/Demand of economics.
The Fed Reserve prints money, to pay off loans. If I attempt to do the same thing, I go to jail.
"both created out of thin air"
it's unfortunate that people don't understand what money is or can be. real money is not 'declared' (US Constitution), it is 'agreed upon'.
Just want to point out that Proof of Work is not the same as "created out of thin air". All bitcoins were produced from consuming energy. There is an actual cost (in electricity) to mine and produce new BTC.
Some other cryptos did away with Proof of Work because they said it's wasteful. Okay. But the alternative is trusting a central authority to manage the ledger honestly, or trusting an elite class who already owns most of the supply to be benevolent, and we know how that goes.
Declaration by armed authority is a good way to get a lot of people to agree upon something.
That only works for so long.
Bitcoin is hard money, it is not produced out of thin air.
No, it isn't.because it is not made of, or backed by, any physical commodity. Gold is hard money. Prior to some time in 1968 US Silver Certificates were also hard money, because the paper certificate could be redeemed for silver.
It's the hardest money on the planet. It can't be diluted or over produced. It takes work to produce it. Look at the amount of energy, info and time it takes to mine it. It's a store of value.
What makes gold a store of value? It's bc we agree it has value. Think about it.