Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 17, 2016, 01:16:57 AM

Quote from: Karolus on June 17, 2016, 01:11:49 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 17, 2016, 01:00:41 AM

most of these 'lower income' countries need bitcoin for protection from rampantly corrupt governments ... in such cases it is your duty to starve them of taxes which are levied criminally when there is no accounting for where the money gets spent/wasted

That mentality is what keeps those countries poor. Even countries with corrupt governments need tax revenue to provide for improvements. The less tax revenue, the fewer improvements. There is no way around that. Bitcoin isn't going to magically pay for public education, infrastructure, etc.

no but it could starve out all the corruption in public systems and allow for better private schools for all (which are always better quality with better societal outcomes of free-thinking individuals) and also allow for private roads, better housing, private water supplies built by communities who actually have money to spend on projects that they benefit from ... you get the picture.

Big public works projects are a magnet ofr corruption, waste and incompetence. Bitcoin could stop all this socialist bullshit that keeps countries in 3rd world status.

Unfortunately, I find your ideas to be incoherent. You expect corrupt politicians to legalize bitcoin so that those same corrupt politicians starve? Good luck persuading those politicians to commit suicide like that.

I don't think poor people using bitcoin would starve corrupt politicians. Those politicians probably already have enough assets allowing them to live off the income from their investments. The poor people in low income countries are more likely to starve themselves by impoverishing their countries even more through tax evasion.