When they come for your Bitcoins, all of that cryptography is useless when you're dead or in jail. And they will come because the masses of socialists and legions of state bureaucrats won't allow you to withdraw funding their lifestyles.
Aha, now we're getting to the crux of the argument instead of dancing around the ropes... You feel that if bitcoin, or any other money that isn't fiat takes off then the powers that be will simply stick you in prison like Ross Ulbricht is now.
The problem with this is two fold; one, even the USSA doesn't have enough guns to come after 350 Million murikans who like their new "fee-free version of paypal." The INCENTIVES that this technology offers to people, once it goes mainstream and they actually understand their incentives, is powerful. It will save them money, and allow them Access to services they simply cannot get otherwise.
Yes, the government can make it hard for some of them to ever get enough exposure to bitcoin, especially the old farts that aren't long for this earth, but
ALL of the younger generation knows about bitcoin now, and many of them are using services in whole new industries that can only exist using cryptocurrency.
Secondly, the USSA isn't the only country on the planet. The governments of Germany, Russia and especially China are all pretty happy with bitcoin, at least for now. Your government just passed a law saying "It's money and we'll tax it!" So clearly the national problems aren't half as bad as you make them out to be.
I will say this one more time. The problem isn't technology. It's the people. It has always been the people. There is no miracle technology that makes a bad man a good man.
I see the people as a broken part in an otherwise workable system.
Yes, they're lazy little statist sheeple. Yes, they just want free stuff. And Yes, they're not going to educate themselves on what money is, much less why bitcoins make good money.
BUT, bitcoin doesn't need them to. It offers them access to things they simply cannot get otherwise. Whole industries, both legal and illegal, are only available to them via bitcoin, and so they'll just see their friends using some service (like
prizefighting videogames) or product (like illegal drugs) and ask "How do I get some of that?"
The answer will always be: "Get some bitcoin, then go to www..."
They don't need an anarchist education to want to play videogames or smoke some pot, do they?
Like Droplister said above, now there are hundreds or thousands of anti-state folks with newfound wealth who all will be likely to offer more services like these. Eventually these folks will make it so that every good thing on this planet that money can buy, will ONLY be available for bitcoins.
Taxes; yeah, those are still only available in legal tender currencies, but somehow I suspect that people will start earning less and less of those currencies as time goes on, mysteriously. :anon.sml:
