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Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:11:11 AM

But wait 'till you hear my flip side theory. Hehe... It's a doozy.

Next post.

We (perhaps royal) need that like we need another hole in the head.

Cry

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:30:29 AM

cAPS: Flip side theory.

Shit!!!!!!

I'm too late.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:30:29 AM

This is not a new theory, but I have never taken it seriously until today. But I also give it very little credence. It's a wild ass crazy thing.

Central Banks have been rushing around trying to figure out how to make a digital currency for a decade now. They are getting closer to a test that I would have thought possible. But they are super far behind. And you KNOW they know they are fucked.

What if... the most powerful central bank hired... uhh... I dunno, say the inventor of SHA256 to develop a viral, unbeatable new world currency that they would control to the extent it would be possible considering the fact that one reason that it would be viral is that it is TRULY a decentralized system. Or, even better the FED did NOT hire them, but instead it was launched by a secret (possibly even rogue) element in our intelligence world.

Say they just released it on the cypherpunks mailing list under some pseudonym Nakamoto, SAtoshi and did everything they could surreptitiously to help it catch on? How would they control it, you ask? Well they wouldn't once it was launched. But they would be able to virtually "premine" more of it than anyone else. And then someday after it gained worldwide traction and the price of it stabilized they could come clean (or not? I am not sure about this part) and introduce a plan to monetize the USGvmt with the Satoshi coins?

Sorry to interrupt you in the midst of your seemingly detached fantasy - but it seems to me that several of the fall outs of the 2017 forkening attempts and the various subsequent failures have already negated the possibility of any supposed decentralized coin to displace bitcoin - absent a clear an unequivocal 10x plus improvement over bitcoin, and surely what you describe is not even close to having a chance.

By the way, what you wrote kinds of reminds me of several of the conspiracy theories regarding what bitcoin "really is", which there are pretty decently sized contingencies that presume that the USGovt or various status quo TPTB have backdoors into bitcoin - so surely you seem to be describing one way to overcome bitcoin is to have a back door into it.

At another time, you had mentioned that you thought that pumping Ethereum's success could be another kind of backdoor way to conquer bitcoin.. which seems to be a more convincing angle than anything that you have so far presented today in your part 1 and part 2 attacks of these undermining bitcoin questions.

Don't get me wrong. I am not even asserting that some of these might not be tried or that they may already be in the process of being tried.. USGovt siding with faketoshi for example could be one of them.. but still, there is no real evidence that anything they are doing so far is even close to successful and part of the reason that some of us (inckluding yours truly) have been considering bitcoin to have been and likely to continue to be successful way beyond our even most wild of our imaginations of bullish scenarios.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:30:29 AM

This would be the perfect way to launch the worlds dominant CDBC. And ahead of all the competition. And it would be done in a way that would be both a gift to the world, and a great benefit to the creating country.

Ok.. this part is a bit better.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:30:29 AM

How would this government act during the first 20 years of it's existence? Well they would act disinterested. They would slow play their hand. They would act like they did not really SEE the risk. And most of them would not know because it would be ultra-argon-xoomax Top Secret. They would not make it illegal... and they would wait on OTHER COUNTRIES, perhaps even their enemies to take it up first and embed their economies with it. Some of them would bitch and scream, but over all they would just go on printing dollars like usual. Well more than usual. They would be printing them faster and faster. They saw this coming too after all.

Then after Russia, and perhaps China, and some other economies adopt it... after it is safe to do so, they could begin to pull the curtain back, and though this might cause all kinds of temporary instability the game theory here works itself out pretty fast as well.

*Sigh*. I can only wish that the US government, or ANY of them for that matter was wise enough to think up a thing like this...

But the result will end up the same no matter what. This monetary avalanche is well underway and unstoppable at this point. There will be winners and losers, of course, but it will not be stopped. At least I do not think so.

Well, at least you come to the right punchline conclusion, and I am not even disagreeing with the idea that they are trying things and they have "things up their sleeves." At least we are in agreement that they are too little too late, even though you want to speculate regarding ways they might be working on supposed projects.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 12:30:29 AM

Anyway... I said it was crazy and do not claim it to be original... I mean I have never read anyone else really try to flesh it out, but I know people have theorized it.) But all the things that have happened? They can actually fit a theory like this fairly well... lol. An obviously I have Americentricized this. It could be many other world powers that did it...

I agree with this part too.. .Various countries and status quo institutions are trying various things.... and that is likely to continue as ongoing and perhaps as severe as they can get away with from time to time.. even while they are getting called out and having to back down at various times when they are found out.

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Dude they already did it BTC is the name of it. Grin

Exactly!!! That's the already existing theory. You beat me to it philip.

Well, I evidently did the worst job ever presenting my case, because that is precisely what I was saying!

For the record, I was right there with you and smirked at Phil's :facepalm response... Then when J1G joined in I started to rebut, but, but you beat me to it.