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It's almost like it's in a psychologist's business interest to promote the idea of an "elusive phantom" lurking around every corner, who people will be extremely fearful of because they sound so realistic.
Exactly this. Why trust someone who is just trying to make money off your fears and a false promise of feeling better when there are better, more real solutions out there?
By now everybody figured out this is a sock puppet. Give it up and get a lawyer.
Your paranoia is disturbing, your accusations against me are even more baseless than your witch hunt against Zhou Tong. This is why we need government involved in this, every witch hunt will always find new victims and I guess I'm up!
That's right, because governments never engage in witch hunts and always act in the best interest of the people they serve.
Why is someone with your views even interested in Bitcoin? It is largely about moving away from such oppressive and corrupt centralized systems.
As a socialist/communist and a member of a spiritual group that has had to battle tons of spurious attacks from government I am very familiar with the concept of government witch hunts. No government is perfect and we should always work to improve them, however the safeguards they provide are a huge step up from the unrestrained mob justice you get in a situation like this.
I think you would be surprised how many other leftists are flocking to bitcoin. The concept of being able to track every transaction, as opposed to the total anonymity of cash, is a huge benefit if you are trying to exercise control over the market. Now, you don't actually manipulate the Bitcoin itself, you just regulate it's use within your market by setting up whitelists for approved wallets. Any blacklisted or unlisted coins are sent to the government for redistribution before they can enter the market. That all seems a bit off topic for this thread though, but as I've said before it's very like Satoshi is actually a leftist and not any sort of libertarian at all.