On 4/22/16, dan@geer.org <dan@geer.org> wrote:
| > But yeah, it's also true that they've been 'developing' their | > own electric monies before bitcoin arrived into the scene... | | And I agree with you that they will probably try to coopt Bitcoin or at | least blockchain technologies. If not to build their "cashless society" | then at least to try to crowd out potential uses for anonymous transactions | by ensuring that all the "legitimate" players are playing on a controlled & | tracked blockchain.
I (think I) understand why a regime like China wants a cashless society, but what is in it for Sweden (which is much farther along the road to Hell)?
Fear I think, the endless desire of those in power to hold onto that power, and to try ever further sheeple controlling techniques to that end. Sweden appears entirely bound by the balls, Assange rape charges and extradition - the conduct and sequence of events is, to my eyes, an indictment against Swedish politicians and the Swedish legal and law enforcement establishment. I hold that such a number of humans acting unethically in concert do so because they are compromised - sexually, financially, or by threats and intimidation. Those who desire control catch more political bees with honey I suspect, which leads me to think wikileaks, or rather anonymous publishing, scares the living daylights out of them. Only a matter of time before the leak of all leaks makes it public... as the infighting grows, loyalty blows; will require purported descriptions for public media consumption rather than direct wikileaks publishing though, one can imagine.