Re: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :)
also, an interesting thing I just thought of.
In the US, the supreme court has ruled that money is speech. Corporations are allowed to give freely and anonymously to political causes, because money is speech; corporations have personhood; and people have the First Amendment right to free speech.
So if money is speech, and speech is supposed to be free of regulation by the government... why does Bitcoin need regulation?
I wasn't arguing with you.
I'm not the one begging for regulation.
In the US, the supreme court has ruled that money is speech. Corporations are allowed to give freely and anonymously to political causes, because money is speech; corporations have personhood; and people have the First Amendment right to free speech.
So if money is speech, and speech is supposed to be free of regulation by the government... why does Bitcoin need regulation?
Bitcoin is, by its very nature, a giant black hole (spare me the discussion of a transparent block chain), so whether or not the silk road exists, it is a tremendous threat to the surveillance state. Again, how do you propose to regulate bitcoin? Pretend that I agreed with all your assertions 100% and was just saying okay, that sounds great, but how do we do it?
I wasn't arguing with you.
I'm not the one begging for regulation.