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Quote from: JorgeStolfi on July 23, 2014, 04:01:55 AM

it will be very hard to invest a significant fortune in bitcoins without the government knowing it.

But it is amazingly easy to invest an insignificant fortune in bitcoin, and subsequently spend a significant one.

Suppose that I were to use a threat of torture to compel you to trade all of your gold for false analogies, invalidate all contracts payable in gold, and demand that you pay me false analogies on a recurring basis, when I had previously arranged for the establishment of a lender of false analogies who was the only source of false analogies you could tender without being tortured by me, and who lent out false analogies at a rate of interest set by my sock puppet. Suppose further that I issued an arbitrary number of false analogies to a few of my friends at zero interest - several orders of magnitude larger than would be required to purchase all real property in the entire land - and required that all sales of real property be conducted in false analogies, on penalty of torture. Then suppose that I took some of the false analogies that I had extorted from you, and hired an army of useful idiots to impress upon everyone that only false analogies were of any real value, and everyone should donate all of their labor to people who have more false analogies than they do, in hopes of getting a few here and there, and another army of sycophants to indoctrinate your children in the cult of false analogies. Then I hired an army of army to bomb anyone, anywhere in the world, along with up to a million of their countrymen at a go, who threatened to trade oil in gold instead of trading oil in false analogies. And every once in a while, I shipped a literal cargo jet loaded with literal palettes of 100 false analogy notes to some distant occupied land, administered by a friend of mine, who lost track of a few billion false analogies this way. Then I promised you could have healthcare if you made me Emperor, and when you did, I doubled the charges (made on threat of torture) payable in false analogies each month. Meanwhile I indexed your income in false analogies to the price in false analogies of irrelevant luxury goods, which consistently carried negative against the increasing price, in false analogies, of food, energy, fuel, housing, medicine, and education.

Would you finally consider yourself, then, a free and dignified human being, well-served by the servants of the public, who merit your confidence?

Best post of the year

+1

Classic Aminorex.

pfftt...I'm stunned by how many here are still seduced by Aminorex; the Sheldon Cooper of Bitcoin.

How about you refute what Aminorex is saying with solid arguments instead of ad hominems? You don't sound very convincing or inspiring to me.