If businesses will accept this STUPID idea, for example McDonald etc....i am sorry, but this will be end of bitcoin because you will have not single store whereyou can use it as now
Why will it kill bitcoin?
Most people will get a bitcoin trusted address like they do now with paypal or a cc card and get over it.
All the advantages bitcoin was suppose to have (small fees , easy to use , fast trasactions) are going to be forgotten because the merchants request an id in order to buy from them?
The ones who don't want it... they don't want it and that's it. Nothing you can do about it.
If McDonalds embraces this idea i bet that in 1 month we'll have at least 20k verified addresses.
It can be wrong, but I choosed this extreme argument, because i think it can show you something, what you are missing. If I understand this right...Let's say you are in the world, where BTC is 1# currency and the blacklisting/redlisting or whatever is working...you are in the country where prostitution / drugs are illegal (almost all countries in world). Now tell me one thing...how are you gonna pay? Sure you wouldn't pay with bitcoins (all prostitution and drug bitcoins and adresses would be blacklisted, right?), would you? Because if in any time in future the prostitute or drug dealer will be caught, they will track the bitcoins to you...And you know what? How the tv show character Walter White said in the Breaking Bad...."Do you really wanna live in a world without Coca-Cola?"... i don't...
I am not saying, that i approve drugs or prostitution...no, but people should have their own choice to decide if they want to make stupid things or not...that is a life...
Nobody can track dollar bills, if there would be some way, they would already track it...bitcoin bring this possibility to the governments.....so if this will happen, our freedom will be smaller than it is now and privacy? In few years, there will be no such thing as a privacy...
So after all, when bitcoins will "win" the battle for #1 currency, in exchange for our financial freedom and privacy...i think many people would say: You remember the dollar? Yeah man, good old times....
I don't know, i am just thinking something like this surely can destroy bitcoin and the sooner you will get it, the sooner we can take some actions against it as a community, together...
What did you smoke?
You're seeing as a problem that people can't do anything illegal?
Well , let me give you another example , maybe you realize what stupidity you just said:
Control chips are installed on birth and the first thing people are scared of is :
"I can't kill my neighbor anymore"