[POLL] Should the Altcoin world work with govt authorities or fight them ?

[Spoetnik]

I agree Dino maybe then we would see a real push towards adoption.
Everyone is waiting for some other person to get the coins adopted.
Such as any coin ANN topic when the users bitch and moan about a road map to get it used etc.
That is THE USERS JOB !
The dev makes the coin and all of you are SUPPOSE to use it !
How many supporters use their coins ?
The least they could so is gamble with them or something.
Maybe use it for donations on a web site etc.
Get off your ass's.

I have tried to point out some glaring issues and what bugs me is most simply deny there is even any issue at all.

THAT ..is what pisses me off !

I seen one guy comment today, "Well we are still doing this stuff still"
You are also ignoring the signs problems are looming and doing nothing to deal with it.
I would expect at the very lest a discussion forum on coins would be talking about the tough issues.
Regardless of where you stand on them.

I'd love to jam my opinion down everyone's throat.. i am a loud mouth here in case you didn't notice
More importantly i want to be provocative and hopefully interesting in a sea of boring.
I want to see people take the first step in acknowledging issues so we can figure out how to improve things.
If your not moving forward your going backwards.

What i have said since 2013 in regards to crypto regulations is if we do nothing we will for sure end up with Reg's we don't like or want.
It behooves us to take the initiative to be apart of the result that is coming sooner or later.

[dinofelis]

I agree Dino maybe then we would see a real push towards adoption.
Everyone is waiting for some other person to get the coins adopted.

This is normal, because as of now, it is a greater-fool game.  So everyone is waiting for greater fools to join in !  This is how I understand this call for "adoption": send us more and greater fools, so that "the price goes up and I can make some benefit".  One day, we will run out of greater fools of course.

However, I fail to see the need for adoption, if it is to just do all the work to build another fiat for government (where I understand by "government", not just the public political figures, but the "powers that be" including the Soros-type deciders that tell government what laws to vote).

If the idea is to abide to what the powers that be want, just use their stuff, no ?

Such as any coin ANN topic when the users bitch and moan about a road map to get it used etc.
That is THE USERS JOB !
The dev makes the coin and all of you are SUPPOSE to use it !
How many supporters use their coins ?
The least they could so is gamble with them or something.
Maybe use it for donations on a web site etc.
Get off your ass's.

The actual sad news is that crypto is simply not used much as a currency, and in those cases where it is used, fiat can just as well be used, unless one needs "illegal" aspects.    Crypto is by far mainly a greater-fool game, in which centralized exchanges play a major role.  But the real usage of crypto, which is the one that is not affected by the existence or not of exchanges, is minuscule.  Anon or not.  And without anon, even totally useless, because exposed to legality.  And when it is exposed to legality, it can be done with fiat too.

[wavespump]

I think they can work with government because it is alternative or supplement of bitcoin. You know altcoins can be good like ethereum, ripple or monero. No need to fight with gov, cooperation is win-win, why not?

[coin-investor]

If say Monero was essentially blacklisted across any govt *compliant* exchanges / services we could see a massive price crash.

True crypto shouldn't even be on exchanges in the first place.

You can measure the "true value" of a crypto when it would be absent from any exchange.  Because that "true value" would be the Fisher's formula sustained price of its usage as a currency, where it is used to buy and sell goods and services.   Close down all centralized exchanges, and you'd measure the true market cap of crypto: it would be infinitesimal.  Maybe bitcoin would reach $10, if it even did.  Monero would be quite below the $1 line.  But it is their true "currency" value.

All the rest of the current market cap is greater-fool game.

You have a good observation,but the supply is limited and even fiat are being traded it would have been easy if mining is easy and supply is unlimited,we just need a certain regulation for these altcoins to exist,it could start here on Bitcointalk if new dev will first show a proof that he can sustain his coin development.

[disconnectme]

I think neither is required, you can't fight government and win also there is no need to be friend with them because what they want is control and being their friend means you will be doing their bidden. so staying away from them and adapting to their function is the best

[Ayers]

i think government given up already on crypto, they only care to regulate bitcoin, stuff like monero zcash and all those zero-proof super anonymous coins, are impossible to deal with, they are made for privacy, the government can only try to incentivate regulation by offering a service that let deposit your anonymous coins, but who would use that?
and btw not all anonymity is bad, it's not always like that you want to hidden something if you want anonimity, some just want more privacy

[dinofelis]

I think neither is required, you can't fight government and win also there is no need to be friend with them because what they want is control and being their friend means you will be doing their bidden. so staying away from them and adapting to their function is the best

Well, I think you can't "stay away and adapt to their function".  If you adapt to their function, then you don't stay away.  If however, you mean, "take into account their strategies", then you're right of course.  The first rule in warfare is to know your enemy. (the second is to know yourself)

[dinofelis]

i think government given up already on crypto

That's more or less the practical hope: that they are simply overwhelmed, and when they try to regulate, the ghost is already out of the box.  But I wouldn't be too sure: stealing is the government's core business, and taking their control of monetary flows away is hitting them in their core.  This will be harder than the fight for freedom of speech.  Economic freedom is hurting them in there core.  They won't let that go so easily.

[Spoetnik]

I don't think some of you get the intention of law.
We can see crystal clear right now it is there for YOU.
All of you trying to make money doing this.
The chief reason for the laws to exist is outlined in the AML law.

I will post this yet AGAIN because you all STILL don't get it..

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Firms must comply with the Bank Secrecy Act and its implementing regulations ("Anti-Money Laundering rules"). The purpose of the AML rules is to help detect and report suspicious activity including the predicate offenses to money laundering and terrorist financing, such as securities fraud and market manipulation.

Now what in the fuck does that say ? do i have to spend half an hour putting it in bold with italics and giant font or what ?
Can you chucklefuck's read ?

You people are fucking exhausting.  

Do i have to take what that quote says then spell it out for idiots ?

What may not be obvious is that i am not saying we need laws to stop scam coins from being made.
I am saying it would be good to at least at the bare minimum have some laws out there that hammer the worst of them AFTER they are made.

Common sense tells us it's not practical to have a legal filter of sorts for coin creation etc.
Simply because of the logistics and chance of exploitation and the ever increasing tech world advancements.
Who would and COULD Police new coins ?
I don't think anyone in the govt is going to try doing that because it's simply too much of a messy hassle.
..yet some of you are commenting here like that is what is proposed.

You guys like being ripped off ?
Fine then shut your fucking mouth when it happens.
I don't want hear any calls for this forum or the lawyers or FBI / Police etc to hunt down people or services that burn you cocky little naive ass's.

Want a "no laws" Free Market ?
Then shut the fuck up when your stupid Investard ass's get GOX'd or Cryptsy'd.

Chances are both of those two would have been caught far sooner before they even had a chance to run for it had there been proper laws in place with a legal framework that demand transparency and accountability.

Want to argue about that ?
You can't..
Because both had claimed hackers stole their coins and STILL stayed open operating for a year or two AFTER they claimed they were robbed. (BigVern said he did not know who to report the hack etc to)
So..
if there was at least basic oversight the Fed's etc could have spotted this glaring problem and the users could have gotten a fair chance at getting their money back etc.

Paul Vernon fed all of you lies for about 1.5 years saying everything was fine and BitJohn had posted a blog post saying we don't run a fractional-reserve like GOX did and we have bullet proof Cold storage etc.
If any of those claims were investigated a year or two earlier they would have been caught red handed sitting on US soil etc.
At the EXACT time Vern's wife got a fur coat, 100k ring and a million dollar mansion and dumb fuck from GOX was buying a bed for 38k and claiming hackers stole a few hundred thousand BTC.

But you enjoy your little "Free Market" guys.. you reap what you sow Investards.

And no neither burned me because i am smarter than you.
I seen massive hardcore red-flags galore when i started Crypto about GOX in mid-2013..
I seen tons of them as time went on with Cryptsy and got out way ahead of time
Far before the FUD babies clued in.. because i am smarter than you kidiots here.

Note: Shitcointalk has no age requirement.
See school photos posted here of the BlockNET kids having a water balloon fight in their school yard or the picture where the chubby little shits were eating in their school cafeteria..
Yup the same BlockNET brats who suckered you dumb fucks into giving these little kids 1 MILLION DOLLARS in ICO BTC money.

Go make it rain on toddlers fer teh ROI's Investard's.. free market yo ! NO LAWS bruh !!111
Just don't make me sit there listening to you chucklefuck's whining your little idiot ass's off after you get burned.

OMG CALL THE COPS I DUN INVESTARDED MYSELFS !!!!11

oh and i know damn well these retarded brats didn't make it past 1 sentence of this rant.. they are disabled high on Ritalin with ADD.. which is WHY they are getting burned.

OMG USE DUE DILIGENCE BRUH

Yup and.. that would require READING wouldn't it ? ROFL  

[dinofelis]

I don't think some of you get the intention of law.

I think *you* don't get the intention of the law: to make the state almighty and capable of printing as much money as it desires, to take all possessions of all citizens it desires.  If the state allows money it doesn't control to exist, it loses this capacity, so sooner or later, such money will be against the law, or such money will be put under total control of the state.

So crypto will become fiat, or will be outlawed.