Topic: Bribing government for bitcoins... (Read 2314 times)

While I usually find anarchist opinion to interesting ,informative and somewhat enlightening in many ways ,your argument are just imbecilic on so many levels.




Does this mafia protection involves providing and maintaining basic infrastuctures such as road,health and rescue services(firefighters,ambulance and medicines etc) ,protection from unscrupulous act/attempts against you(even from the Mafia itself) access to basic education,governance  and whatnots?And are the "fees" competitive compared to what the local government taxes you while managing similar or superior quality of services?
If yes than I would probably accept the Mafia administration any time

Then I suggest you moves away from the country that oppresses you or organise a resistance.


You can't seriously equate a struggle against  a colonial ruler (India belongs to Gandhi and his countrymen ,not the British) as the same as not paying taxes
Again , this irrelevant and unrepresentative.Unless you are suggesting that havingto pay taxes is equivalent to living in an apartheid system.


The Arabs were fighting against despotic no-democratic rulers in which they have little say and no way of choosing/changing government.Unless you're living in a similar state, your argument is moot.

I'm with you this one.If anyone trying to take the fruit of my labour without giving anything consequential of beneficial  in return , then they can expect me to fight back.While I am dissatisfied on how they used my tax money (or the rate of tax for that matter) in my country, I always recognise the necessity of it and conceded paying as my duty/gift to society.


Back to the OP's topic.Your scenario reminded me of similar blackmail scene in "The Dark Knight",though here the punishment must be more severe

no, BTCitcoin is real money unlike phoney baloney american dollars which are only used for publicity stunts.  no one is gonna waste REAL money on something with obvoiusly no value (who cares why someone died.  they're DEAD get over it)

Good to see the obligatory political abuse of psychology has now arrived in the thread.

I'd recognize this bullshit argument anywhere. I've seen it before.

Even when it is a property, it is still bribing.

Bribing with a TV is still bribing, period.

a) TOR is not anonymous. (but they let you think it is)
b) Your blog where you put the info have 1 visitor a week.
c) Find a job.

As it's a fun and interesting discussion, I've started a thread on the topic here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-and-anarchism-579899

On a related note, Bitcoin's pretty awesome for petty bribes you're expected to pay in semi-industrial countries.
Not sure if serious. You don't think we'd have toothbrushes if there were no government? Like if it weren't for government, the toothbrush manufacturers would be totally confused as to what to do and just dump everything they manufacture into the ocean until they're insolvent or raided by one of every citizen who's suddenly joined a violent gang now that government dissolved?

Dude, just go for it, then come back here and tell us how it turn out. And if you dont come back, we will surely know how it went!! 

Or -a- guy was caught. Last I heard, the so-called implicating evidence looked awfully thin.

This +1, 5flags is irrational. He's using government funded services everyday but doesn't wanna pay up..Grow up dude, if you don't wanna use sidewalks, or streets, or the internet, or clothes, or toothbrushes, practically anything, since there all connected to the government someway somehow, then go live on Mars.

Haha hey im not really gonna try it. I was just putting that out there and seeing if it could be a possibility.

Just something to think about. I mean im sure someone could guess something went awry with that operation and have the government convinced they know something. And the government might want to cover up their tracks. You never know what could happen...

Waiting for the next big news acticle (eating popcorn) nom nom

Dude come on,serious

Here's what happened when this was done:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/1/4483048/hacker-who-demanded-1-million-in-bitcoins-from-mitt-romney-charged

My opinion: It would probably not work unless the info you had was VERY critical.  I don't think the Feds want to set a precedent of being able to be bullied.  Kind of the old "we don't negotiate with terrorists" mentality.  

What's your motivation for asking such a question?

Remember the CryptoLocker virus? It had attacked a number of systems used by the UK Police Department and encrypted the office files. In the end the cops had to pay the ransom amount, to unlock the files. I am not hearing about Cryptolocker lately. What happened to it? There are rumors that the people behind it have been arrested.

Someone already tried this.

They sent a message to Mitt Romney saying that they had some damning information on him, gave a hint as to what it was using some wording from some paperwork of his, then asked for a million dollars in bitcoins by a certain date.

Romney never paid it, the guy was eventually caught.

Very smart plan indeed...

I wouldn't recommend making yourself a blatant enemy of the United States Government.

Lay low and wait for them to implode on their own, then we can all pick up the pieces and build something that actually works.

I agree with you on this... But I am concerned about what the government is spending the tax money on, not the tax itself.