Big money, they kind that's to big to fail in other words, has bought into crypto. It's being co-opted. It still has advantages, in that it is "free speech money", for now at least.
BTW, the big exchanges have been co-opted for years, by handing over your data to the IRS.
Interesting shift in the anti-crypto arguments. It's like they forgot they said it was all a ponzi scheme for suckers and worthless and you should buy muh gold and AR-15s. Funny, because anybody with any sense diversifies and has gold/silver/guns/food AND crypto.
And no, I'm not referring to any one person in particular.
People who trust their vpn's, paid or not - are idiots.
It does offer SOME protection, but if they want you (i.e. you are doing something flagrant and/or abnormal) they are going to get your VPN and then your ISP to snitch (as a general rule).
Sure you can daisy chain them, try to go through a nation that doesn't keep logs etc. etc. The cat and mouse game is largely for show, and obfuscation is not security.
You can only do that if your worthless bits (just like the worthless paper they are backed by) are accepted as trade by another. Those others, as well as you, are going to get the screws put to you. You are fish in a barrel.
Rise your own VPN. VPN that is not completely controlled by you is not a VPN at all.
Yes. That's the point.
Choose your "others" carefully. Don't fall to bells and whistles. It is not as hard as you think.
Difficult, but not impossible. Infeasible for the vast majority.
I don't have your faith. You believe that people will be able to "stand up" and continue to use this "currency" when to do so makes you a criminal. They won't. Just watch.
I generally agree with this, but it will only allow local trade with close friends (and you have to hope they aren't feds or sell out to save their ass :()
In that scenario your bits are only worth what they have to trade for them, and the only thing you will have to back them up are your physical commodities, likewise. You are back to the barter system, and the bits are devalued and worthless. You don't seem to understand what paper currency is, or what it is for. It is the ghost of money, and cryptocurrency is the digital essence of the ghost of money.
Majority willingly injected themselves with unknown garbage, despite all our warnings, so why do you care about them?
Many things make you criminal. That's the point of all that laws and rulings they made for us. To always have something on you to make you guilty. It was criminal to ignore lockdowns and not wear a muzzle, f.e. So what?
And that will mean that your wealth will spread among your friends and will not be stolen by corporations, government, IRS or other bastards. You will spend your wealth for your friends, not for feeding parasites. What could be more right than that? I do it for a long time, and feel perfect about that. We use cash, barter, crypto, whatever we like, not them. Yes, there are still something I have to earn and pay officially, but that is already not a critical things. And we don't care about all that sanctions, crisises, inflation, whatever. Find friends, do the real things, don't let your wealth to be stolen from your community.
In my county banknotes is even not a currency. It is representation of Russian currency existence. Officially. So, it does not really matter what they told you, or wnat you to believe. There is tools in your hands - just use them for your own profit, not their. And just ignore what they tell you about money.
Because they are my family, and they are unwitting and unwilling slaves. I have both pity and love for them. Even to my ignorant [evil] enemy the slavers, I likewise have that same pity and love (for they are also my family, and unwitting and unwilling slaves). If they had any idea of the world they are keeping us (all, including them) from, they would weep for the rest of eternity (and perhaps that shall be their punishment).
Agreed.
They tend not to be so forgiving or lenient when it comes to "f*ing with the till".
Yes, and as long as your friends have PHYSICALLY (now, or very soon) everything you will ever need - that could work for a while. The casino chips of crypto are going to return to valueless bits when the "clock strikes midnight". They must be converted to physical asset/commodity immediately - in my view. Having what was, say, a million in virtual currency will not make you super rich in comparison to your friend who only has five - because the bits will be valueless and all you will actually have are the physical commodities and your skills to barter with, and likewise with them unless you stick with the slavers currency as they will, and are, force us to do.
Agreed. Except the crypto will likely become valueless/devalued soon, as the cash currently is - but far worse. They will not accept being cut out of the "deal", because their greed and hubris is insatiable and bottomless - matched only by their ignorance [evil] and heartlessness.
Easier said than done, but I once again agree - wholeheartedly. That makes our (personal) world MUCH smaller, but I (personally) can live with that. Most people I know, cannot and will not.
Same/similar in mine. Our currency is merely paper with no backing or connection to physical reality. The "gold machine", they call it.
I agree, but crypto is not the sound investment. Nor is fiat currency. Anything that can be legislated/whim-ed away with a twitch of the banker's nose and is controlled, one way or another, directly by them. It is clear the bells are ringing, and it is time to have real commodities of use instead, not fictional bits or colored toilet paper currency.
I always ignore them when it comes to money (economics is a scam), but few people are strong enough to do that and to face the societal/economic consequences of doing so.
Anyway, nice talking with you!