grarpamp wrote:
Bitcoin's price dipped after Trump's negative tweet.
correlation is not causation
as to 'digital cash'* bringing down governments, that's just fantasy.
A digital "cash / currency"... those terms are containers into which people dump various descriptive words and capabilities in order to try to define them,
you can define 'digital cash' as having the best properties you can wish for - and govcorp will still be able to attack THE USERS more or less easily. Point being, crypto systems by themselves are powerless.
*cryptocurrencies are not cash AT ALL since they require massive infrastructure
The infrastructure need only do some list of useful things such as keep accurate ledger, run timely and relatively inexpensive tx processing, and cost more in distributed collective defense than any attacker can muster or gain from offense. "Massive" (which you failed to define) is not necessarily a requirement.
massive infrastructure is the #1 requirement. In order to have 'digital cash' you need foundries, each one costing 5000 million dollars(all of them currently owned by govcorp of course) and a global telecom network. As we all know the global telecom network is the NSA's spying network ususally referred to as 'the interweb'. And to produce the hardware that makes up the interent we need a few 10s or 100s of billions to pay for more foundries, optic fiber and whatnot. THAT is the infrastructure needed for 'digital cash'. Compare that to the costs of gold...
all depend on ONE unique ledger
Most cryptocurrencies that utilize a single unique ledger do so in a redundantly distributed fashion, etc.
yes, the ONE ledger is managed in a distributed fashion, but it still is ONE ledger. Well except in things like the lightning network where channels are actually peer to peer. But even if the second layer is more decentralized, it still relies on the base layer acting as a clearinghouse. So there still is a centralized bottleneck.
Unlike N different central "cash" or Gold ledgers where N is the number of accounts you have at such GovCorpBank
well that's my point. Systems that require a ledger are centralized by design. The moment you start using a ledger supposefly based on gold you are not using gold anymore. Just 'golden' IOUs.
even govt paper bills are real cash, they are actually decentralized and anonymous.
If those are your exclusive set of words you like to define "cash" by, then that "cash" works for you.
what I mean by 'cash' is a something that doesn't need a middleman. I can pay you using bits of metals, or even physical bills issued by a govt mafia, without needing an internet connection and without anybody knowing that the transaction took place apart from us two. Digital 'cash' does not have those properties.
However "govt paper" implies government exists, which is most certainly not an ideal situation.
of course. The drawback of physical bills is that the govt can print tons of them. But apart from that, we can use bills to make transactions that are 'anonymous' and don't go through any central clearinghouse.
And "decentralized", living somewhere between a single point dot and 100% distributed amongst all peers, can have certain risks and mindfulness needed as well.
by decentralized I mean that transactions using 'physical tokens' do not need to be recorded in or go through any unique database for them to work. And by the way, that's how barter and money worked since the dawn of history. Banking was a step BACKWARDS.
Gold and other commodities
That only works within your range of personal travel.
When you start wanting to "transmit" gold,
create trust and security systems and etc that can span that distance. So in order to effectively
The real problem is that you created and allowed
You now have more or less all of the crypto and tools needed to create a far better
yes and? You see, freedom isn't free and there's no 'free lunch'. You can personally manage your own money, or let god's choosen master race do it... then you have to create transmission systems for physicals and messages, create ledgers, oops, so you're not using gold anymore, as pointed above. transmit gold, you've essentially created a cryptocurrency system to do so, at which point gold itself can and will likely become moot. lawl, gold would be the source of that currency's value, so not 'moot' at all. Still, such systems are a FAILURE by design. the wrong cryptocurrency system ie: GovBankCorp as the first such generation of a transmission system. well yes a honest banking system is theoretically possible. But to get one we need to burn down wall street with all the bankers included. Burn them alive. So who's going to do that? transmission system. wrong.
Most of humanity does not currently desire to moving society back to your quaint local agrarian communes or whatever it is your aggression is advocating for.
what 'agression' are you talking about
Cryptocurrency can work via sneakernet and even by hand calculation... it just becomes extremely slow.
lawl - pointless comment.
The minimum general assumption in cryptocurrency is that both electricity and digital communication and computation methods will remain up and generally accessible to everyone.
At which point, so long as society and ultimately human DNA maintains the desire for a "forward" progress
an absurd assumption that stupidly ignores the fact that the digital infrastructure is fully owned by govcorp. Hey, you can't even talk about 'cryptocurrencies' in the 'libertarian' 'cryptography' mailing list. that includes electricity comms and compute tech, yeah, techno 'progressive' garbage which you actually do not understand.
GovBankCorp Fiat will remain below Gold which will remain below Cryptocurrency which becomes top dog and moots all others.
gold isn't below 'cryptocurrencies' at all. Except in the minds of 'techno' 'optimists' who are useful idiots for the NSA.
Maintain fallbacks in the mix as you wish. But don't be so stupid as to continue to allow GovBankCorp to rule over and keep you in slavery.
I'm simply pointing out that your 'digital cash' is worse than gold and that believing that it would 'magically' overthrow governmetn is laughable wishful thinking or worse.
No one ever said crypto was invulnerable to global thermonuclear war,
lolwut. Crypto is completely vulnerable to a bunch of peopel being thrown in jail for 'money laundering', a bunch of 'mining farms' being raided, etc etc.
they just said you'll have MUCH bigger problems than worrying about where your crypto, "cash", or gold is.
If you're smart, you'll end government before they can reach for the launch keys. yeah and I dont need you and your $5b 'progressive' foundries to tell me that. @InsertNameSpace said: Capitalism cannot thrive with a socialist central banking system, capitalism? The hell is that?. As to the current 'progressive' and 'digital' economic system it works perfectly well with central banking, does it not.
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