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The Old Radical: How Bitcoin Is Being Destroyed

Friday, October 26, 2012 4:20

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Posted by Julia Dixon
DGC Magazine
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

http://www.dgcmagazine.com/the-old-radical-how-bitcoin-is-being-destroyed/

This piece was recently sent to me by “an old radical.” The message
is perhaps a bit harsh, but I have to admit, all I can do is grimace and
nod in agreement to this thesis… “Bitcoin and state banking
systems are born enemies: only one can survive. If you are imagining
that they can peacefully coexist, you are fooling yourself.”

I was a radical before most of you
Bitcoin users were born. That doesn’t make me any better than you
(hopefully I did a few things to make you better than myself), but it
does give me a better perspective; time just works that way.

I’ve been watching the recent
developments in the Bitcoin markets, and having seen this drama before
(too many times), I thought I’d pass along a lesson. This will strike
its target in some of you, but others of you are also likely to reject
it, because it doesn’t match what you want to be true.

Here’s the lesson: Trying to go ‘legit’ will destroy the Bitcoin market.

For those of you who haven’t turned away, I’ll explain:

There’s nothing really wrong with Bitcoin
itself. The developers are doing a nice job of addressing its problems
and a heartening number of people have jumped up to create new tools and
new services. No problem here.

The problem is that too many people in the Bitcoin market are thinking the old way.

Understand this: Bitcoin is a new thing – it is not compatible with the old financial system.

Bitcoin and state banking systems are
born enemies: only one can survive. If you are imagining that they can
peacefully coexist, you are fooling yourself.

Bitcoin exposes the fraud that is state
banking. If you think that politicians and bankers will calmly allow it
to take over a significant percentage of world financial flows, you’re
in denial. States will come after Bitcoin, and hard. They have no
choice. Their money can only exist if there are no competitors.

Alan Greenspan may have done a lot of bad things, but he is not stupid. And before his adventures at the Fed, he wrote this:

“(Under a fiat system), there is no
way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation… If there
were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done
in the case of gold.”

What gold was then, Bitcoin is now… times five.

So, let me try this again: Going legit gives the state a handle to grab you with.
‘Legit’ means registered and regulated, doesn’t it? You have to tell
them your name, where you live, and where you put your money, right? It
means that they can control you whenever they want to.

There are two big reasons why Bitcoin people are tempted to go ‘legit’:

They want to get mega-rich fast, like Mark Zuckerberg.
They have been trained to be obedient and can’t unlearn it. They are
compelled to believe that the government is basically good. It must
just be one bad politician or one bad law.

#2 is what destroyed e-gold, and it looks like #1 is what killed GLBSE.

Because of GLBSE, Bitcoin is now being
regarded as a currency and states will start to regulate it as one. That
means that they’ll attack the public exchangers and force everyone
possible to comply with their rules.

So… it’s time to man-up, or to crumble.

(Interestingly, there is often a larger percentage of women that “man-up” than men.)

Will you have the guts to do the right
thing when the pressure is on? If yes, I applaud and honor you. If not,
here are a few cheap excuses to use (after all, who wants to admit
conditioning or cowardice):

Without the rule of law, everything would fall apart.
Without regulation, criminals would destroy everything.
Yes, regulation is coercive, but along with it comes a certain amount of public benefit!
I got ripped off, and someone has to fix it!
If I can’t sue someone, they can get away with ripping me off!
We can’t get people to use Bitcoin unless it’s authorized.
We need approval or we will forever remain a tiny market.

A significant number of Bitcoin people
will say these things (and others), but the real truth will be that they
are scared, or are still hoping to get mega-rich, or just can’t rip the
“government is our friend” meme out of their heads. But mostly it will
be fear.

We all feel fear of course, but some of us are determined enough to do the right thing, even when we’re afraid.

So, here’s a final tip: If you run into someone who can feel the fear and still do the right thing, don’t let go of them.

Reprinted with permission.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF FREE BANKING, CRYPTOGRAPHY, AND DIGITAL CURRENCY

2012-10-26 04:03:16

Source: http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-old-radical-how-bitcoin-is-being.html

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