So let Armstrong have his NWO bullshit...I can't believe he is this dumb... Either he knows this, or is just incredibly fucking naive.
As with so many things with Mr. Armstrong there is insufficient information to make an informed judgment. I would not be at all surprised if his prediction of a downturn in late 2015 is correct although I would note that others are also predicting the same. He also is obviously intelligent and has a firm grasp of ancient history. In regards to his claim to be a market oracle, however, and his offer to sell investors access to his spectacular AI that can predict the market I remain skeptical.
Contracts shouldn't be designed to require the courts for restitution. This drives collectivism as you duly noted.
There will always be a need for dispute resolution and mediation in contracts. It is impossible to fully remove this need. Although it is certainly possible to mitigates the states role via private judges/arbitrators the best that can be achieved here is minimization.
Pedophilia, rape, murder, assassination have been going on since Mesopotamia. Communications were always anonymous in the past. You want a 666 control system to try to stop what has always existed and you will get instead your nirvana of megadeath.
Anonymous internet communication doesn't make it more difficult to hunt down individuals as compared to the way it was done before the internet. There was always anonymous money and transactions in the past. Whereas, if we give the State the power to make all transactions trackable in the imminent switch over to digital currency, we will surely all die in megadeath 666.
Two separate issues here. 1) Is there a social cost to adding unbreakable anonymity in monetary transactions? 2) Is the cost worth the benefits?
It is true that such crimes are ancient ones. However, it is also true that the creation of a marketplace where such activities can be financed in absolute anonymity will lead to an increase in said activity.
Ask yourself this question. If everyone in the world was suddenly gifted with your current understanding of fiat, cryptocurrency, socialism and its dangers would you want anonymity in a world currency? The answer in my opinion is no. In such a admittedly very unrealistic scenario there would be no need for anonymity as the populace would vote to dismantle the foundations of fiat based socialism. There would be no justification for facilitating the aberrant social behavior that unbreakable anonymity helps hide.
Now obviously that is a completely unrealistic scenario. However, I believe it demonstrates why the long term solution to this problem is education and where that fails natural selection. Anonymity is a useful means to protect individuals until society progresses to the point where it can be safely set aside.
Internet anonymity is nothing like burying gold coins. It doesn't have to be cumbersome nor cost more (but there is a lot of programming work that needs to be done to make it so). It doesn't have to decline the velocity of money and can in fact increase the velocity which has been collapsing, by providing an outlet for the private sector to grow and interrupt without the oppression of the State.
Perhaps but this has yet to be proven. Certainly nothing that exists today meets this criteria. The state is likely to come down hard on an anonymous cryptocurrency if it starts to gain traction. That alone will increase the cost of using it.