Quote from: freeyourmind on April 30, 2015, 09:43:09 PM

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Whenever you see the government and official institutions showing interest about Bitcoin is because they want to rip it off and use features of it for their own evil intentions. They for example want to take the blockchain and adapt it to the fiat scam, which would basically be a big catastrophe. Don't fall for their traps.

But theres some government officials that have good intention to bitcoin. Maybe they want to merge or to adapt to fiat money so that the people will have a unity. Dont think a negative to the government officials they vote us because we believing them that they are good person and have a good intention to the people.

Is that really how you see the government? Benevolent public servants that care so deeply about the interests of its citizen that their own personal interests and career come second? That is how it should be in an ideal world, but that is definitely not the way it is working today.

Think of teachers, whose top priority should be educating kids right? Even in a slow economy, when they don't get the union negotiated raise they are looking for, they don't hesitate to go on strike and hold a sign instead of teaching the kids they are supposed to care about. Not trying to talk badly about teachers in particular, but I think it's pretty naive to think that a public servant is here to serve the public. A public servant is here to keep a job and make a living. Serving you is priority #2.

Bitcoin goes against the foundation of many economies, that are currently maintained with monetary expansion, so it wouldn't make sense for the government to welcome bitcoin.

Hahah why do you hate the government? You have an anger with government. So you mean that government are not worthless or theres nothing doing right? If you mean that what will happened to your country if there no government? Think of that.

I don't hate the government. I don't really hate in general. I don't agree with a lot of government policies here. Also, pretty much any private organization can offer a better level of service for lower cost than any government organization can. The government effectively monopolizes industries, do not allow competition, and then force you to do business with them, whether you want to or not.

I would prefer minimal government to no government at all.

Government policy decisions were the cause of the 2008 financial crisis (mortgage securitization, sub-prime lending), government bailed out banks, government enables war funded by debt. IF you have a benevolent government, then its great, but we don't have that, and in that event, I prefer minimal government.

Just look at drug policy alone, which is probably the biggest failure in policy ever. They took a small issue and turned it into a massive global issue, forced the creation of a black market, where conflict resolution needs to be done outside of the law/courts/trial/police and basically dealt with violence. You have people in jail for selling or using drugs, to which there is no victim for the crime. You have privatized prisons that are deep in the lobbying game for the government that need people in jail. You basically have the police and prison guards dealing with people that have a legitimate health problem with drugs, instead of doctors or physicians. This is all a result of pathetic and corrupt government policy, which doesn't benefit the citizens, but rather a select few that profit from it. I can go on about a lot of other miserable failures in policy that are still not being corrected.

There is a riot going on in Baltimore at the moment, because black people are sick and tired of being beat up and killed by police officers when they are not initiating violence.

There are some services government provides which are fine, but private organizations can always do a better job, because they need to compete for customers, where the government will simply make competition illegal and force you to do business with them.

Here is an interesting quote that I like, and find a lot of truth in: "There are no political solutions, only technological ones; the rest is propaganda"
Then think to yourself - what problem has the government solved? or rather what problem have they made worse from their intervention?

So what they are going to their position in government if they cant do their jobs or services? Why do you or your community to vote that government officials if the government officials not have a good job? If you or the people who live in that country not vote that person, for sure you have a good economy and a good country.