Topic: We once had a barter system here, but the government smashed it - page 3. (Read 510 times)
January 24, 2021, 03:56:48 PM
At this point, I don't think the government will do anything drastically about Bitcoin. Not when institutions are rallying to buy it and billionaires are supporting it. You see... politicans do not rule the world. They are merely puppets. The billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said it: "there are about 150 people who run the world – [they’re not politicians] anybody who wants to go into politics, they’re all f**king puppets.There are 150, and they’re all men, who run the world. They control most of the important assets and the money flows – they are not the tech entrepreneurs."
January 24, 2021, 02:58:08 PM
I don't think it's comparable to the situation Bitcoin is currently facing. The BTC situation is a new for me: an oppression covered in false support. It's like saying you support drug use while heavily restricting its trading, markets and usage. I see what you did here, but I think the gov hates barter way more than they hate BTC due to the fact that BTC is fully public. No matter how much I want to support BTC, the fact that we do not have even optional privacy makes it an amazing control tool for authorities.
When Bitcoin gets opt-in privacy is the same moment when you'll start seeing the same oppression you have witnessed back in the '80s. For now, they are in fact actually happy about BTC's existence since probanly >90% of the users don't care about privacy or make little mistakes that uncovers their entire history.
When Bitcoin gets opt-in privacy is the same moment when you'll start seeing the same oppression you have witnessed back in the '80s. For now, they are in fact actually happy about BTC's existence since probanly >90% of the users don't care about privacy or make little mistakes that uncovers their entire history.
January 24, 2021, 01:31:17 PM
Back in the early 1980's My part of the country was in a huge recession. Peoples selling their houses for 1$ and walking away .
A free buy and sell paper had ads offering people to sign up and trade services for services, or goods etc.
I traded a transmission out of an old car for an overhead garage heater.
I then traded the electrical system to run a grow op to a licensed plumber for his services to install it.
For the special chimney required I traded a electric sewing machine.
There was no crypto back then.
Well this trading started catching on ,there were lots of ads in that free ad's paper from people looking to trade for all kinds of things .
9 months went by, then the local government started having the media slam the traders for being tax evaders, unpatriotic ,and all the usual BS .
The next thing I knew the free ads paper ran a banner saying no more trade ads allowed.
That was the end of our public barter system .
Government crack down . I wonder what this year will be like for BTC with so much bad media ( government )
publicity .
A free buy and sell paper had ads offering people to sign up and trade services for services, or goods etc.
I traded a transmission out of an old car for an overhead garage heater.
I then traded the electrical system to run a grow op to a licensed plumber for his services to install it.
For the special chimney required I traded a electric sewing machine.
There was no crypto back then.
Well this trading started catching on ,there were lots of ads in that free ad's paper from people looking to trade for all kinds of things .
9 months went by, then the local government started having the media slam the traders for being tax evaders, unpatriotic ,and all the usual BS .
The next thing I knew the free ads paper ran a banner saying no more trade ads allowed.
That was the end of our public barter system .
Government crack down . I wonder what this year will be like for BTC with so much bad media ( government )
publicity .
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