None of what you explain here is about controlling Bitcoin, it's about controlling *people.* This is very well understood, but the point in the current system is that they can control people BY controlling the system (ie. censorship transactions, freezing bank accounts, confiscating unlimited resources through counterfeiting, unilaterally exerting control over anything and anyone's entire economic foundation).
In each of the scenarios you gave, you are indicating that they have to attack the people directly, because these options listed above specifically are not available to them. Obviously they can always break out a stick and a hammer and enforce their rule, but this doesn't scale very well, which is exactly why they work so hard to control the systems of transactions and the fundamental creation of money, its 1000x easier to appear as if you've done no harm, if you can swap direct violence, to indirect fraud. Bitcoin doesn't solve violence directly, but it does absolutely change the *economics* of violence and the ability to impose unjust and tyrannical laws on the people. It's very much like copyright and file sharing. Sure they can play a never ending game of whack-a-mole and make people not want to share files, but if they can't stop the technology itself, on a long enough timeline they've lost the war.
Your examples suggest that what I have explained is correct and that those limits absolutely remain in place, because you have only come up with things the govt can do *within* those limits - which is my point. Govt cannot inflate #Bitcoin, they cannot edit its history, they cannot freeze accounts, they cannot stop transactions, they cannot turn off the network... all they can do is *attack people,* which will mean the trillions in economic theft they they've had the luxury of doing as a massive, quiet, backdoor fraud; into one that can only stay afloat with guns and whips, and the people will slowly hate them all the more for it. This is exactly how revolutions get started. There is zero chance that they keep stealing the amount that they do if it has to be taxed directly from the people.
The govt spends ~60% of the total US working population's income. Good luck getting them to directly tax that.
TheGuySwann / Guy Swann
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2024-05-22 15:29:04
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