Quote from: Bit_Happy on March 11, 2014, 03:51:02 AM

Quote from: pungopete468 on February 27, 2014, 07:36:31 AM

As a free human being you're the only one who can subject yourself to them.

Bitcoin is protected in the United States by the First Amendment. Bitcoin is a ledger; a digital book of accounting. You're using this book of account with permission from the creator who made this an open source project.

If the United States adopts Bitcoin (not just accepts it but actually adopts it) and opens a professional exchange in New York with partners being banks, corporations, and other large entities; the UK and then eventually the rest of the world will do the same. It's like anything else in business, you can't just sit back and watch your competitor making money without attempting to do so yourself.

If the USA just said, "no Bitcion" it would be viewed as a blatant infringement on Constitutional rights regarding the First and Fifth Amendments.

"Freedom in our lifetime", really? This is going to be exciting...

Freedom is a personal choice, not an empty statement, or guarantee... You can make the choice in your lifetime if you choose to. There's never such a thing as "free" freedom, the cost of freedom is the risk of where you will end up should you lose it, and also the risk of what your offspring will suffer should you let it fade away quietly... Either way, it's worth the risk in my opinion.

This is how you become free: Define freedom, and then pledge yourself to honor it.

I am free because I made a personal choice in favor of death before involuntary servitude. I would rather die resisting than suffer life with the knowledge that I'm not living free. What I do is by choice, my own choice, for whatever reason.

I'm a husband and a father and I would die fighting before I could allow myself even the logical thought that my family, all the way down to my future descendants, might suffer the torment that I was too afraid or wasn't willing to fight against. I would stand up in defense of another person if they were unable to defend themselves. I'm not religious but I live by moral code; logically I understand that there is a bigger picture, and I wish well on others. I don't cheat, steal, or infringe on the rights of others. I follow laws which I agree with, or laws which serve to benefit the public in a comprehensible way. I follow laws not as a follower, rather a supporter. I will choose to disobey laws that I don't support, I'm not a drug user but if I wanted to be, the law would be the last point on my list of reservations about it...

I don't believe that people are as bad as the television propaganda would have us believe, nor do I feel the desire to be protected from them. I don't trust anybody unless they earn it first, and I don't offer my respect to anybody who doesn't reciprocate the gesture.

That's who I am. Free, by my own definition. That's as good as it will ever get in this world...