Two important lessons: 1. Never underestimate your enemy. 2. The fact that you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
If government's were just stupid, they would at least once make a mistake in our favor. If the markets were as predictable as the relentless march of governmental power acquisition, you could leverage one FRN into a fortune--but by then it might be worthless.
I have been told that I have been overly cautious in my dealings on this site and my few dealings with exchanges, because everything we do here is legal. My concern has never been with my jurisdiction today, it has always focused on what it might become tomorrow. Even if this pronouncement turns out to only apply to exchanges, do not doubt that at the very least you will be required at some point to have some sort of "easily earned" license, and "easily complied with reporting requirements" to use any crypto-currency. The sheeple have already consented to the basic principles, and Bitcoin aficionados are already bleeting for it. It has already been noted here how wealth tends to change one's ethics. The Bitcoin foundation, and millionaires will be of no help. It is in their best interest to conform. They are the good guys who want to be regulated--it protects them from... US!
Consider the fundamental right to use your own property and travel unhindered on public right-of-ways, provided you were not degrading the public's property for personal gain. Commercial enterprises were legitimately required to get "Driver licenses" because their cattle "drives" or taxi or truck "drivers" were profiting at public expense and degrading public property. Later, governments leveraged public fear over the mayhem that would ensue from unqualified operators using their inventions in public to unintentionally murder people in the streets. Mass producers of these new-fangled transportation devices urged governmental regulation in order to restrict their competition protect public safety. The sheeple clamored for the special status of "licensed driver" not realizing that traveling with your property was a protected constitutional right, and that "Driving" was a legal term applied to transport for commerce. Today the precedent is established, and there is no going back. Few today even realize what true freedom looks like. They expect that you need governmental permission to do anything, as opposed to being allowed to do anything that is not illegal, or restricts another's liberties. Today Americans are free because they have the most generous government on the planet. Look at all the "rights it grants them!" (Sic)
It may be time for a number of you to start developing reputations with more secure personas and consider retiring those which have so much personally identifiable information. I certainly hope much thought is being given to the jurisdiction and better yet, obscuring of masternodes and wallets. I rather doubt that AWS will be viable for long.
I don't get the impression that many of you are in the habit of praying; it may be time to start. May God bless and protect Ethan! DRK was made for dark days... I just hope it is ready in time.
Peace to you all,
Strix
Problem is, I have no idea how to hide myself
But as paranoid as it sounds, I also see it coming. I think, with parents and grandparents that lived through Nazi Germany, I am a bit more paranoid than most
well LTC is old story 
