Quote from: KeyJockey on October 18, 2016, 12:34:36 AM

Quote from: smoothie on October 17, 2016, 10:10:56 PM

Once that happens and users see that bitcoin is in no way private, that is when the scale tips.

What clinched it for me was after I had yet *another* account unceremoniously shut down on me with NO warning, NO reason, NO explanation given... allegedly because of some "unapproved" coins landing in my wallet from three or four hops away. This has happened to me already more than once.

Near as I can figure it out, it's because someone somewhere down the line must've put a bitcoin or two thru a gambling website or -- god forbid -- done some transaction on the dark web and/or run their BTC thru a simple tumbler and/or God-Knows-WTF-Else that "they" didn't like.

Mind you, it wasn't ME (pinky swear!) and my main failure, I guess, was just not paying enough attention to having to manually "clean" my own wallet in order to avoid this sort of problem. But POINT IS *why* would I even THINK I should HAVE to do that? The dollar bills in my pocket also have traces of cocaine on them supposedly, but am I responsible for the actions of some coke dealer somewhere? LOL it's ridiculous, what these "chain analysis" people apparently believe.

Anyway, yeah of course I'm an early casualty of this scenario simply because I'm a very heavy bitcoin user... several transactions a day, every day. People who only do a couple transactions per week or less don't have the volume (*yet*) to have this trigger on them. So the real PROBLEM is not yet very APPARENT to most people.

But it's going to come, and it's only going to get worse and worse, and when the awareness of this very real problem finally takes hold, then MONERO will be the first and best answer as the solution...

Plus I mean, think about if Hillary gets elected... the more she tries to "crackdown" on Bitcoin and force companies like coinbase to comply with stricter rules; those companies would have to follow suite and then I think people will start to see the true issues with bitcoin.