I agree that the U.S. government does not perfectly represent the interests of all nearly any of its citizens equally at all. but it's the best thing we've got now,
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FTFY.
...like it or not, it decides what is legal tender for transactions with itself, and to a large degree, between private individuals. Therefore it must establish some policy with regards to virtual currency, which is why there are Senate hearings now. The only remaining question is, what policy will it establish?
You're way overestimating the influence that government will have over virtual currency. They could not stop it if they tried. They'll likely not have much luck attempting to restrain it at all. Eventually, it will erode the power structure from beneath their feet until they are completely impotent. Somewhere along the line they may try to stop it or change its course but they will surely fail.
It can choose to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. Then it will have essentially pre-assigned a large amount of the currency to those people who created bitcoin or heard about it early, which is a very, very small fraction of the U.S. population. That just seems inherently unfair to me. I think it's much better to act on behalf of all citizens - which is the point of the government, isn't it - and ensure the fairest possible scheme from the outset. Hence my proposal.
You just don't get fairness.
Bitcoin has leveled the playing field.
What's not fair is a monopoly game where one guy has a copy machine and can just print off as much play money as he needs.
What's fair is a monopoly game where somebody got a lucky chance at the start of the game to buy the most valuable properties, recognized that chance, took it, and won the game.
So don't whine about how somebody already bought all the best properties and say you think we should distribute them all equally, or quit the game moaning about how it's not fair, instead thank the guy, because he just kicked out the asshole with the copy machine, and there are still some good properties left, so hell, you might get second or third place.
By the way, your letter to the senator made my stomach curl and my face scrunch up in ugly expressions of distaste. I had to restrain my imagination for I surely would have vomited if I had actually visualized the senator reading it. If I had attempted to imagine that I was the senator and read it from his perspective, mentally modeling what his thoughts and reactions might be, I would surely suffer from cardiac arrest from the sheer obscene vulgarity of leading my imagination to such filthy corners of the world. I dare not even imagine what would become of me if I attempted to put myself in your shoes and imagine what a horribly twisted, incoherent world-view would lead one to write the phrases and have the ideas that you have put forth in that letter.
In conclusion I would like to say that while there is a ever-so-slight chance that your logical faculties are functioning, you are clearly operating with one or more faulty premise. Possibly a great many of them.
