My God.... the things you said are at Billy Madison level, but I'm going to be civil and give them a proper response.
if we have a private ledger, people doing illicit activities will simply go there, and nobody will know a thing of what they're doing...
So we shouldn't have new and better technology because then the criminals will use it? Wat? "Why should you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?"
So we should do away with bitcoin too because the criminals are apparently using that. As you can see, this makes no sense both logically and historically.
governments can just carry on putting money that's not their in their pocket:
no honest government has anything to fear towards their citizens, and a government should be transparent. a private ledger won't do anyone any good, they'll keep on putting money under the carpet as they do now. for a private ledger we already have fiat...
Unfortunately, sometimes governments need privacy too. I know that might blow your mind, but global politics is a giant chess/poker game and there's simply no way to make everyone play open and honest. Even if we were united under one world government, sub-factions within that government would all fight in the shadows to control it.
Organizations will pit themselves against each other, and this is our natural tendency. The games they play will consist of public moves and private moves, and both are necessary.
If citizens don't want their government dealing in private currency, they can just pass a law forbidding them from doing so. If this truly is a better way to run a government, then that government should quickly dominate all others because of openness and transparency.
i seriously don't think it would be any good. it would be destroying what bitcoin has accomplished so far.
It would be a natural extension and evolution of what bitcoin has accomplished so far. If bitcoin was anti-privacy it would record IP addresses with each transaction. Unfortunately, the technology to have truly anonymous peer-to-peer transactions did not exist in 2008. It only came into existence in 2014.
Welcome to the future; you're living in it.
we should have better technology when this new tech improves the current one, not when it goes back a few years.
criminals may wish to use Bitcoin if they want it: knowing all their transactions are recorded in a public ledger and cannot be altered or tampered with in any way
exactly as you say: politics is a giant chess game. this is precisely what we want to avoid for many, many years and so far we could not, the biggest problem being money expenditure. politicians spend fortunes (sums of money that we don't know for sure how high they go) for campaigns and promises they will never deliver. if this is the government you want and consider this "a natural tendency" then feel free to support them, and keep using fiat currencies. this definitely not the government I want.
as for laws, citizens do not pass them, governments do. do you think any government will allow such a law? they aren't honest and open because it's easier just to steal and fade away
the natural extension to you seems to be banksters handling fiat. this introduces human error and we could speak about that for quite a long time, but you've already enumerated examples. people are two faced while handling fiat, avoid leaks of what doesn't matter to be leaked. Bitcoin is not anti privacy, it enforces privacy if you use it correctly. math might not be an opinion, that's for sure... but it is indeed a fact.
