USA used to be a great country, with separation of church and state, democratic elections that really changed things, and more, but the Federal Reserve has turned our government against us and some extremists against our government.
I'm still very happy that I feel safe (not expecting anyone to show up at my door demanding I stop writing these things or lock me up, but maybe later when the conflicts escalate) writing these things, so there is that freedom, but freedom must be constantly protected and expanded.
Wouldn't you like the government to again be something people are excited about, like it was when USA was first formed to get away from a very bad government. The government was their friend. They had thoughts like "What can I do to help my government do its job better, so it can help the people more?" But now that has turned into "What can I do to fight the government politically and economically and sometimes (for some extreme groups) violently?" USA's government has become a parasite because of the Federal Reserve controlling it. Let's give them a second chance, and form this alliance between decentralization and identity verification, and rip out the heart of the parasite - the Federal Reserve - leaving a government that wants to help us because we want to help it, a democracy. USA is not a democracy anymore, but it can be again if we decentralize the global economy with a double key system like I described, one key held by the authorities and one held by each person, both keys needed to access any money.
The Federal Reserve and USA are not the only examples of this, but as far as I know its the strongest example, and when the Federal Reserve goes bankrupt (and it will one way or another), the others will follow. We don't need to have secret meetings, organize rebellions, expand Patriot Acts, torture prisoners of war for information, or hack at the Federal Reserve's computers ("anonymous", you are working against your own goals, and so was wikileaks when they supposedly hacked at various financial systems instead of limiting themselves to distribution of files). Lets all simply agree that the central banking system goes away, build a secure open-source decentralized identity-proving system to replace it, and the Federal Reserve goes away gradually due to market forces (open-source people work for free, and Federal Reserve can't compete, our transaction rates will be paid directly to the network and will be set by market forces, approaching the cost of running the internet hardware, pennies instead of dollars), a revolution where nobody gets hurt or goes to jail.
But which open-source system to use? All of them. Let the free market decide, as long as they use the same identity verification system. Like in Bitcoin, all transactions are public, but public-keys are not people's names and nobody except the authorities need to know who owns what key.
Its as simple as that, and we are going to do it. When we build one, the businesses will line up to get access, and then the competition starts. We're not going to vote on it. We're not going to change laws. We're just going to build it, use it, and later make laws that restrict how it can be used. As it is today, there are no laws about cryptocurrencies. What we do in the next few years will determine what laws are created.
World War 3 is cancelled. Everybody go home and think about the dumbass thoughts that led you into this, and maybe read some Sun Tzu strategy. Anyone who owns stock in centralized banks or related things would be wise to get out now.
As a child, they had me "pledge allegience to the flag of the United States Of America", and I must take that back. I pledge allegience to the Human species and all life forms. Patriotism just isn't good enough anymore, and if you serve yourself or only some group, you're going to find the economy flows away from you as people learn this fact because new equations for economies will compete the way products and businesses compete today. That's what such a double-key identity-verifying open-source economy will do.
We will design economies, using the same identity-verification system, that automatically influence society toward whatever we want it to do. Money is voting. Its true today and it will continue to be true, but the definition of money will advance until it merges with our brainwaves through devices like the Emotiv Epoc or OpenEEG. I just found a shortcut to this "technology singularity" Kurzweil and others are talking about. We're going to implement it in the economy laws, starting with an identity-verified branch of Bitcoin. We are going to mass-produce intergalactic starships, after we reorganize society using this new paradigm, to build the tools to build the more advanced tools... leading to anything we want. Its an exponential pattern. Its too simple to misunderstand, but it works.
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government.
--Barack Obama, 1/21/2009
http://www.whitehouse.gov/openLooks like Obama may want to help with this. What's more open than open-source? I can't say when this will happen, but I would find it very interesting and ironic if the first black president of USA freed the slaves, since we're all slaves to money. But who knows when such systems would all get connected and make this happen?
Anyone interested in building a working prototype or connecting it to identification systems like OpenID? This thread is in the technical section. Lets talk technical.
