Ok, let me try to get what's going on in this thread. OP Jessy Kang, the Madam whore who runs an SM and Bondage business(check out her website) with several "ladies" in NY is concerned that respectable businessmen will be scared away from using bitcoin because of libertarian extremist wackos on the politics forum. And that respectable and completely legal business's like hers wouldn't be caught dead using bitcoin. She is now no longer accepting bit coin for this reason. Am I getting this right so far?
Your gauche attempt at ad-hominem aside, BDSM is legal in most jurisdictions (and pretty awesome, lol
) while tax evasion and subversion of government is not legal in any jurisdiction I am aware of, not even in Somalia (and AFAIK, Somalian authorities, the ones often derisively referred to as "warlords", take tax collection very very seriously) And really got interested when I heard about the Silk Road thing. I'm into bitcoin because it is about Freedom (I hope) and is revolutionary.
I suggest you re-read the bitcoin papers.
Bitcoin is traceable, even if not particularly easily so, so it hardly "free as wind" (I do intend to do something about that, so stand by for updates
)I prefer to build a solid community that support bitcoin, which will help bitcoin retain its value. Masses of people who don't care about bitcoin is not the way to go.
Eventually, bitcoin usage will goes mainstream as the bitcoin economy become more attractive.
Eventually, bitcoin usage will goes mainstream as the bitcoin economy become more attractive.
It is possible to build a solid community based on self interest (namely profit) instead of our anarchist ideology which alienates most other people. The bigger the numbers, the more solid is the community in my opinion.
Word.
I'd sign every single word in JohnDoe's post.