One friend that I used to have on Facebook (I #deletedfacebook a couple weeks ago) seemed to think that governments will come together to try to extinguish the threat that cryptocurrencies pose to the existing financial system. He wasn’t the only one to think this. There was someone else who made a bet with me saying that Bitcoin would go to zero value by the end of January 2018.
We’re beginning to see how the use of cryptocurrencies by governments is likely to play out. They are instead starting to use them as a weapon against other governments for subverting sanctions. Whether it be Trump’s sanctuary city defunding (thanks to 
We in developed countries have a tendency to think of our governments as invincible gods incapable of being resisted in any way. But they are far from the Borg that we see in Star Trek TNG. Resistance is fertile (I forgot who said that). The seeds for a new way of life are being planted right now and authority is scrambling trying to create FUD to create the illusion that nothing significant is happening. We in the west have grown largely complacent either in denial or completely unaware of the massive disruption that is about to hit in just a handful of years time.
I have no doubt that more bans on bitcoin will be attempted, such as the one recently for mining bitcoin in Venezuela. Currency wars have been ongoing for several years now in many countries. But you should educate yourself about what a ban really means in practical terms. Never has a ban on currency led to the banned currency not being used.
The effect is actually quite the opposite. A ban puts a premium on the illegal currency and makes it more valuable. Typically the legal state currency continues devaluing until it’s worthless and some other state currency takes its place with a new financial foundation. A ban effectively enriches those signing their names on the law because they know that police will confiscate the illegal currency and attempt to keep it for themselves because it’s the good money. This happens while everyone is trying to get rid of the bad money (see Gresham’s Law).
The Revolution will begin in the Third World
The 1776 moment is returning for the USA early in the next decade, but it isn’t for those of us in the west. We’ve been asleep while the spirit of King George has been busy resurrecting the British empire on our soil. We are now the ones who will be defeated in a war that the rest of world will declare in independence from us. The system of financial exclusion that our banking institutions have been using will become increasingly ineffective as cryptocurrency use becomes more prevalent.
In recent years, compromise has become a dirty word. This trend in politics that only accepts an attitude of “all or nothing” actually helps bitcoin and other crypto’s to succeed. It’s the lack of cooperation across the aisle that will cause political factions to use the tool of cryptocurrency in order to get out from under political oppression or restriction. Many of these nations are defined as “terrorists” by the USA just as King George declared George Washington a terrorist.
Tech Giant’s such as Amazon will become the new Interim Government
As the equity drain progresses away from the use of the petro dollar (Syria was one of the countries who resisted our central banks), governments around the world will have to downsize their budgets. Those who’ve not been paying their taxes such as Apple and Amazon will then have to invest in infrastructure from their own pockets, else their centralized business models will also fail. This is why I expect all the tech giants which have been using surveillance against us will eventually replace our current federal government in some informal fashion.
We can see this trend quite clearly with Amazon as practically every service is being provided by them under one umbrella. Pretty soon we’ll see in action “who will build the roads without government”. Before this happens, there will be widespread chaos as global systems begin to become more localized. As the collapse beings, some on the homeland of the USA and other western nations within the jurisdiction of US power will become the unfortunate scape goats of the cryptocurrency revolution as they become targets of the old government structures. Their thug nature will become exposed for what it is once financial backing is lost.
However, the old system doesn’t have what it takes to do this to everyone who will be involved. They will be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the rest of us who will openly disobey because to obey will be the same thing as lying down to die.
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