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> How so? If I buy some bitcoin face to face [blah blah] You just described the benefits of a cash transaction. If the government is your adversary in this sce
by jagger27 4y ago
> How so? If I buy some bitcoin face to face [blah blah]
You just described the benefits of a cash transaction. If the government is your adversary in this scenario, what's stopping them from cutting network access and rendering your Bitcoin immobile? Starlink and solar panel? For everyone?
I'm really getting sick of this libertarian drivel.
- redox99 4y ago> You just described the benefits of a cash transaction. Nobody is denying cash is good. But cash relies on the government issuing it, can't be sent through the internet, can't be transported across borders easily, or in large quantities, can be physically seized, etc. > If the government is your adversary in this scenario what's stopping them... Yeah and what's stopping them from throwing you in jail? Or just killing you? I'm assuming an intermediate point here, in which the government isn't either fully libertarian/anarchist, neither fully authoritarian. Which is what most "free" countries are like nowadays. If the government is fully authoritarian and you're an "adversary" you're fucked.
- etchalon 4y agoBitcoin hasn't seen large scale, transactional adoption anywhere, but especially not in any "free" country, where Bitcoin's advantages aren't outweighed by its disadvantages outside of illicit usage.
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