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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:46 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> 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. >
