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I just cannot see how anyone can argue that compromising money with surveillance, law enforcement or other "socially-fashionable" desired properties makes any economic or monetary sense? It is setting the govt. monies up inevitably to fail, maybe that is the plan?
Marcus, great post by the way. I always enjoy reading what you have to say, if I haven't told you before - I did now!
I also wonder where the government is going with this monetary policy suicide. I can't help thinking that there's a few people who saw the dominoes in place, and are nudging the whole system towards collapse - because some of these policies seem absolutely insane to me. I'm aware of the saying
"never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity", but by Satoshi, I can't even comprehend some of the things that are being done out there.