Well off-shores are only used by influential and powerful people, and we know that everyone is equal before the law except those that are not.
I doubt if a regular person tries with an ofshore scheme he will be caught quickly and punished, but not if he is an oligarch. Bitcoin's economy is dictated by the establishment weather you like it or not, because even though the people might be anonymous, the businesses are not. It would be really hard or impossible to run a Coinbase or Bitfinex or Bitpay anonymously, and it would have 1/10 of the users it has now.
So they make the laws for the businesses, and all businesses have to comply. After bitcoin gets more "political power" that might change, but for now, we are bound to that.
But its funny that if the establishment will feel crumbing ground beneath them, they will invest in bitcoin, in fact I think they already hedge it, so that either way they will be the next elite aswell
I really doubt the elite were so dumb to not hedge themselves agains all types of risks, so they will always be the elite.
That's the point! I want influential and powerful (read: rich) people to adopt Bitcoin and we both know there is no such thing as an "establishment" stopping them. That is where Bitcoin's value will grow from, not the "regular person". I couldn't care less if "the regular" person has to jump through some hoops to buy Bitcoin. That doesn't mean Bitcoin needs "the establishement" to exist, survive and thrive.
Where did you get the idea that "Coinbase, Bitfinex or Bitpay" = Bitcoin anyway ?
