This may or may not be Big Brother. But it does seem to be the modus operandi of every government that ever was.
Alas for the large nation-states, this is not the case. There are many small governments that don't have this notion, and in exchange for various considerations (primarily patronizing the financial services of their country), are more than willing to pay little or no attention to issues of how much money one makes, or where the it came from. The boon of secure, anonymous digital transactions is that it's not real clear exactly *where* they happen, and if the digital money to real world money interface takes place in one of these financial ports of convenience, it bodes ill for the taxability of these transactions. While I believe that it is A Good Thing, I also agree with you that the nation-states will not go down without a pretty good fight, and that this will have the effect in the near term of limiting the extent of this practice. Others believe that existing governments are sufficiently rotten and spent that they will just keel over under the weight of these activities; I'm not so sure. -- ---------------- /\ Douglas Barnes cman@illuminati.io.com / \ Chief Wizard (512) 448-8950 (d), 447-7866 (v) / () \ Illuminati Online metaverse.io.com 7777 /______\