Every day, there is more freedom from oppressive governments because of Bitcoin.
Really? Could you please explain how those 100'000 people get more "freedom from oppresive governments" by using bitcoin? Is "freedom" just evading taxes, or buying illegal drugs, weapons, child porn -- or is there something else?
It is maybe the same as other bogus enemies, like drugs, (child) porn, tax evasion, using a mobile when you drive, ...
Their only reason of existence in the legal code is to:
1) keep people anxious and depressed due to the sheer number of regulations that they must adhere to, and the incomprehensibility of them
2) provide skeletons in the closet for all people, so that if they reach a position of power, yet start to think and act independently, they can be replaced by using this "new" "scandal" information that just surfaced from NSA servers.
My position in this debate is:
- A government that claims the right to regulate what people do to themselves, or adults between themselves, is a tyrannical government based on this alone. There is no need to claim a media label of being such. Also just because you own the media, does not make you a non-tyrant if you engage in tyranny, ie. suppression.
- People do not need to apply for permission for
anything, from the government. Liberty means you are free to do stuff, and if the others are infringed in their rightful rights to life, liberty or property, then they, or the government, make you pay, or gouge your eye, or put you to jail, or death (according to the crime).
But not before.