[Cryptography] 1984! US Senate Doesn't Launch Forfeiture and Crypto / Cash / Assets / Prepaid War

[Steven Schear]

A recent and brief introduction to the subject of money especially as it
relates to cryptocurrencies:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2259328-bitcoin-is-money-3/

Steve

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:40 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:46 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> >>Posted on Jun 15, 2017 by Caleb Chen
> >>
> >>These are the 4 Senators that want to create a way to track your
> >>digital currencies at the US border ...
> >
> > I'm getting the impression that nobody here but me has actually read
> > the bill.
> >
> > It's really about prepaid debit cards.
>
> With your eye on the microscope, yes, but DC's are included too.
> With a big picture regarding new philosophies, absolutely not.
>
> > The US and many other
> > countries have for a long time required you to...
>
> Before the NWO controls of the 1930s and beyond, which is
> hardly 85 of 245 years of US "money" existance, other than
> controlling the physical printing / minting of it, the US didn't
> really give a shit what you did with it, nor care much what you
> called "money".
> The philosophy of "money" was more "freedom" oriented
> and decentralized and having some of Bitcoin's (DC's) fundamental, even
> "alternative / libertarian / anarchism / independant / multiple"
> principles.
>
> Find some history and things...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
> http://www.zerohedge.com/
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money
>
> > adding them to the list of cash-like things.
> > all it does is make them subject to the same rules
>
> Status quo apologist copout from those unable to
> consider working, cohabitant, symbiotic, even better,
> innovation, empowerment, and alternatives.
>
> The point, from many creators, proponents, adopters, users,
> is that DC's... like the crypto internet so far to free / freedom of
> communications... are not about seeking "more like".
>
> > If I thought bitcoin were important (I don't) I'd be thrilled that the
> > law was changing to treat it more like real money.
>
> So what exactly is *real money*?
> Do you really think it is compressing only into what some
> bureaucrats arbitrarily call "cash-like things"?
> And that arbitrary rule[rs] define the only possible scope of validity?
> Your ability to use it?
>
> Get "real" and dig yourselves and minds out of todays
> "legal" / political / philosophical strictures.
>
> If not you'll soon be forced to report and tax that plate of
> chicken you grilled for your neighbor who helped you
> build your patio. "Legally" you probably already are,
> and are subject to jailing and forfeiture for it.
>
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