Quote from: MatTheCat on March 06, 2014, 04:01:05 PM

Quote from: mgburks77 on March 06, 2014, 02:59:38 PM

It's not a social experiment.

It's economic warfare

Yep.

And not against the USD and her allies, but against the upstart nations who are building up their economies and threatening the dollar hegemony, by looking for ways out of it. A liquid BTC market provides moderately wealthy individuals/middle classes with a 'I'm alright Jack' way of getting their funds out of a crisis hit economy, which in turn throws the economy into yet more crisis. The one day Ukraine panic showed exactly the ways in which Bitcoin would be used when the curtains seem like they might come down on a nations economy.

The USD will collapse, but not before every other currency economy has collapsed underneath that. Bitcoin is a way of helping BRICS and other small nations currencies collapse. A facilitator if you like. The instigation will come from other pressures.

Bitcoin is a tool of evil, not of liberty. Even if Satoshi is a libertarian and he believed in the altruistic ideals behind Bitcoin, it isn't really that hard for nefarious organisations to use well meaning individuals as tools in a game they may not understand.

Aand none of it matters. Still. It still doesn't matter. Sound economies are not going to collapse because of bitcoin, and the ones that would break anyway would... ready for it? break anyway.