@f0dder - OT part
Since this is off-topic...
Is it immoral to stop someone from stealing from you?-Renegade
Is the financing of public healthcare, educational system and infrastructure "stealing"? :-)
-f0dder
It's really boils down to one of those fundamental issues that that you either believe in, or say that you believe in but don't really. Freedom.
As a very simple example, take property tax... It's simply there. Period.
You are FORCED to pay it basically at then wrong end of a gun. This is how government works. They make physical threats and actually follow through on them with force. None of that is controversial or inaccurate.
However, in the case of property tax it is slavery. Period. There's not really much to debate on the topic there. Slavery is forced labour. Property tax forces you to participate in the economy in order to pay the tax. It forces your labour out of you. Again, nothing controversial. Well, unless someone thinks that slavery is ok, or things that it matters *how* someone is forced to work.
Property tax removes the option to not participate in the economy. This is a complete violation of a person's freedom.
Property tax is stealing, is theft, is forced labour, is slavery. It steals your labour. Is it theft of the fruits of your labour. It forces you to work (slavery) through threats of violence against you. (I would take it that kidnapping someone and forcibly confining them is violence.)
Property tax eliminates the freedom to simply be left alone.
Now, the typical retort is usually something about "who will provide water, electricity, roads, whatever." The answer is pretty simple... Does it really matter all that much who does it? And why not just get people to pay for their water, electricity, roads, whatever? There's more than 1 way to skin a cat.
The on-topic part:
The taxes in Denmark are a wee bit high, and I wish the whole system could be reformed - and on top of that I definitely don't like the greedy immoral bastards from the banks (and the rest of the financial sector). I don't think BitCoin is a good (part of) a solution - the combination of a global fixed maximum number of coins with the possibility of coins getting lost forever, and basing its entire safety in a cryptographic method that hasn't been super well peer reviewed and definitely hasn't stood the test of time? No thanks.
But it sure does seem like a handy way to pay for drugs, and a lovely thing if you're intending to steal other people's coins and/or whitewashing.
-f0dder
Well, it's just a tool. If it tanks, oh well. If it succeeds, great!
But I think that you're being a bit pessimistic.
Imagine you want to go from A to B by bus/tram/subway/metro/whatever - public transportation. Also imagine that you're a political dissident. Well, given that everyone is a terrorist now (especially if you pay cash for coffee or have more than 7 days of food in the house), it's not much of a stretch for anyone.
Anyways, I digress... Back on topic...
But you don't really feel like having your every move tracked. You use the bus a few times a day, and carrying around a lot of change is simply heavy. Digital currency is lighter and more convenient. But if you use your bank card or credit card, well, you're being tracked.
Wouldn't it be nice to have the option to not be tracked?
Now, someone is going to jump in with the completely irrelevant objection, "But I can buy a bus card at the station with cash, so... blah blah blah."
Ok. Forget the bus. How about buying milk? Gas? Paying at toll booths? Perhaps you don't want to be tracked for how much technology you buy - computers, HDDs, cards, memory? Out of cash and out of pron?
Or perhaps you need to purchase something over $1,000 or so, and the store refuses to take cash for large purchases (this is becoming more popular), but you don't want your spouse to figure out what their birthday present is, which they would if they checked the accounts?
There are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many good reasons to use bitcoin legitimately!
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