The reactions to my opening post illustrate how easy it is for otherwise intelligent people to start sounding like an echo chamber once they have financial or ideological reasons to promote a certain worldview.
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You haven't address my prior post.
Within their sovereign territory, governments can easily prevent merchants from publicly accepting certain forms of currency, like BTC.
Not if anonymity is 99.9% and we are moving to an economy where we download and 3D print thus every merchant transaction can be anonymous.
No more physical stores. No more physical merchandise other than the low valued components of raw materials, which will be in abundant oversupply as the global economy implodes after 2016 from the $150 trillion debt bubble (and $1000 trillion derivatives and $1000 trillion unfunded promises from governments).
We are moving to a radically different world. The industrial age is done.
Now we enter a massive global implosion with 50% unemployment and chaos.
Anonymity will reign. Those without cunning and balls, just get out the way.