Fair arguments, but as you state, they currently have a system that they can fully control. Whether cryptos are a trojan horse or not, people with that much power are not going to just watch that power disappear. They will do literally everything possible to keep it.
Using the constitution analogy, most of the patriot act is/was unconstitutional, but they were pretty easily able to get that through with minimal pushback by crashing a few planes into a few buildings.
And as witnessed during the scamdemic, they were pretty easily able to get the overwhelming majority of world governments on board with the lockdowns and restrictions. There were some outliers, but not many.
They just need to scare enough people, and honestly, for most people I don't think it is too far of a leap for them to accept plugging in blacklists for transactions when they are convinced of the threat of "terrorists", or whatever.
All I'm saying is start working now to try to head that possibility off, either by raising awareness before it happens, or by helping to create alternative, parallel systems that will offer a safe haven.
True, black markets have always existed and always will. But make those black markets bigger by working now. Black markets that reach a certain size can essentially operate in the open, and that's what we would want.
To your question, though, the answer depends, right? Are you willing to risk getting caught? If so, then yes, you potentially have a lot to gain, but it is not without tradeoffs.
Things rarely end up at the extremes of possibilities (though sometimes they do), but the reason for that is because of the people that push back. So push back :)
Fair arguments, but as you state, they currently have a system that they can fully control. Whether cryptos are a trojan horse or not, people with that much power are not going to just watch that power disappear. They will do literally everything possible to keep it.
Using the constitution analogy, most of the patriot act is/was unconstitutional, but they were pretty easily able to get that through with minimal pushback by crashing a few planes into a few buildings.
And as witnessed during the scamdemic, they were pretty easily able to get the overwhelming majority of world governments on board with the lockdowns and restrictions. There were some outliers, but not many.
They just need to scare enough people, and honestly, for most people I don't think it is too far of a leap for them to accept plugging in blacklists for transactions when they are convinced of the threat of "terrorists", or whatever.
All I'm saying is start working now to try to head that possibility off, either by raising awareness before it happens, or by helping to create alternative, parallel systems that will offer a safe haven.
True, black markets have always existed and always will. But make those black markets bigger by working now. Black markets that reach a certain size can essentially operate in the open, and that's what we would want.
To your question, though, the answer depends, right? Are you willing to risk getting caught? If so, then yes, you potentially have a lot to gain, but it is not without tradeoffs.
Things rarely end up at the extremes of possibilities (though sometimes they do), but the reason for that is because of the people that push back. So push back :)