No, it's not. I'm actually quite sympathetic to BitCoin. Skeptical, but sympathetic. I am constitutionally incapable of being "smug" about government power. It is supremely dangerous to think this is the limits of what the government can do. Assuming that I'm "one of them" and using that to discard my warning is also dangerous.
Exactly what you mean by some "complication" in relation to what I said is beyond me. I sure hope you don't think "complication" plays to anyone but the government's advantage.
This is the warning shot. They are coming. Prepare.
I'm calling you the pot simply because you smugly called someone else smug. That didn't have anything to with whose side you're on, or whatever.
> This is the warning shot. They are coming. Prepare.
This is just some incompetent corruptocrats. This is not the warning shot. This is not the crackdown.
But yeah, I fully expect the US government will, more likely than not, try to shut down Bitcoin. I think most people who are not naive teenagers do.[1]
One complication is that the US government only truly controls one country, and there are 200+ countries around the world. Bitcoin is useful, and the cat's already out of the bag.
To be clear, I'm not naively saying that it's going to be a successful currency in the long run; we just don't know.
[1] I expect it to be a legally drawn-out process that does not criminalize bitcoin overnight and may not even fully succeed. Also, it's worth noting that the Feds have been insanely pro-Bitcoin so far. Rather than making it illegal overnight, all they've done so far is to release the most pro-bitcoin regulations conceivable.
No, it's not. I'm actually quite sympathetic to BitCoin. Skeptical, but sympathetic. I am constitutionally incapable of being "smug" about government power. It is supremely dangerous to think this is the limits of what the government can do. Assuming that I'm "one of them" and using that to discard my warning is also dangerous.
Exactly what you mean by some "complication" in relation to what I said is beyond me. I sure hope you don't think "complication" plays to anyone but the government's advantage.
This is the warning shot. They are coming. Prepare.