Completely refusing Central Bank and Corporate Digital Currencies no matter what the cost, is one absolute requirement to maintaining human freedom. CB and Corp DC's are a clear and present danger that must be fought. https://coingeek.com/author/kurt-wuckert-jr/ https://coingeek.com/nouriel-roubini-right-about-btc/ First, scroll to bottom of link, CoinGeek is owned by Calvin Ayre, bro buddy of Liar and Fraud Craig Wright, BSV, NChain, etc. Biased as Fuck. "BSV is a completely open public ledger of account because Bitcoin was designed to be private for personal use while retaining transparency for regulatory compliance and room for personal audits." The notion that Bitcoin-BTC had such design first-priorities is quite suspect. Far more likely that meme made possible as how the number one primary task of simply finding a way to move nominal decimals of notional value around a network between accounts... resulted in anything that could then be argumented as being whatever. BTC managed to cross first, with a title ledger system instead of iterating former token passing systems. Regardless, early years roots of Bitcoin, its communities and meetups, even as seen in any documentaries, were almost entirely about disruption via private use of p2p money, ancap, etc... a way around the GovCorp system, not at all particularly in it... all about the freedom of possibilities, all not giving one single fuck about GovCorp. The game was rightly about how to route around compliance, not comply with it. After all, theorists among them knew there would be ZERO point to getting involved in any newfangled GovCorp Fiat and subservience like that when such systems of legacy Fiat already exist for centuries, and all CBDC / CorpCoin just a boring extension to that Fiat. So they didn't. This silly and dangerous notion of "transparency for regulation", which is as dangerous as CBDC's themselves, was only concocted up by the Castrata as a pacifier once regulation started to raise its ugly head, and is promoted by Pontiffs and Pastors shilling their services, warez, patents, licences, Corporations, and personal hodlbags into that space. They're playing the game by effectively hoping to be the chosen CBDCs, the Govt approved Corp non-alt-coins... a dishonest and disgustingly sick twist away from libertarian OG cryptocurrency goalspace. Such Pastors claim to their own self proclaimed Church null and void since they don't have the keys to its door, a door emblazoned with the gilded BTC logo readily awaiting any real claimant that can turn its lockwork, thus proving their non liar-hood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala Hawala is well known among the field of analogues for digital p2p money, and definitely serves some amount of rightful inspiration in the space. The similarities to Bitcoin-BTC ledger system interesting, but not necessarily specifically ancestral. Even haters of Cryptos, Metals, and Fiats can securely and privately hawala chickens if they have a strong private comms system... if comms between hawaladers (password, amount), or settlement channels as needed, are disrupted... it falls just like digital disruption. ie: A Chinese chop with Mexican-US drugs just got rolled up in the news. As they say... Great rates to Mars, inquire within. One could expect the development of DropGangs and PrivateCourier systems offering carriage over the future's New Silk Road trade routes to consider similar inspirational sources, and no doubt seek a p2p solution blending cryptocurrency, GPS, Uber-like apps, etc.

"they were engaging in drug smuggling, assassination markets and human trafficking."

Bullshit FUD. Not least proven by Anti's can make even worse claim by looking at all those who create and service world's Fiats, but Anti's only single out cryptos. FUD FUD FUD.

Ponzi scheme

Anti's love throwing this FUD at BTC too, but didn't bother reading definition of Ponzi, or market dynamics. "The romantic, libertarian view of Bitcoin subverting the oppression of the centralized fiat economy... ideology of civil disobedience and the hope of building a shining new economy upon the distributed ledger." Future for real cryptocurrencies and all such systems still looking quite bright, regardless of Roubini, Wuckert, Ayre, Anti's, Govts, etc all trying to lie, slag and squelch the ideals and its advocates, creative players, adopters, believers, attendees, markets, coders, users and more. Real Cryptocurrency Freedom to Voluntarily Collaborate is a future. Don't ever let the GovCorp Anti's shut you down.