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BEFORE I BEGIN, UNDERSTAND HOW COMPUTERS WORK
...everything (and I mean everything) can be reduced to binary. It's 1's and 0's.
To repeat.. it's ONES and ZEROS...
Which means it is either ON or OFF
There is no "maybe" with computers. Digital code translates into what humans can't seem to do... Computers think logically. It is either THIS OR THAT
A Bitcoin transfer happened, or it did not happen.
...it's quite simple actually. Even when there are forks in the blockchain, the truth eventually surfaces.
There is no logic, or simple binary things in human thinking. There's always a grey area.
I, like many others, believe that when it comes to finances, it is either TRUE or FALSE.
- Some economists will say "perhaps this will become true"
- Some economists will say "perhaps that will become false"
- Some governments will say "we recognize this to be true"
- Some governments will say "we recognize that to be false"
WHAT DOES ANY OF THAT MEAN TO THE GENERAL HARD WORKING PERSON?
Nothing.
You work hard all day long. You get paid $10 for your time. That is your $10 to spend as you wish, right?
It depends on who you ask...
Yes, you have $10 that you earned "worth of something" and you bought something on the blockchain but...
- The bank might have restrictions on whether or not you have access to that $10
- The government may have to investigate whether or not you are spending it the right way
- A portion of that $10 might go to sales tax, gas tax, or some other tax
So after earning $10, is that $10 really yours? It's always questioned by so many people looking at what is in your pocket.
Now when you have Bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency, you have $10 worth of "something".
The blockchain only cares whether or not you have the private keys to that $10 worth "of something"
The blockchain only cares if you send that $10 from you, to some other address, and that's it.
Is it complicated to send $10 worth of some cryptocoin to some other address? YES! It is...
Is it easy to understand that $10 worth of some cryptocoin is 100% in your control, because of cryptographic keys, and you can decide where that $10 goes next? (YES, the concept is easy)
Cryptocurrency is popular, not because of how easy it is to use... because it gives the basis of "I own control of this property, commodity, stake or ownership in something" and because of my private keys "I decide where it goes next".
If you look at the universal human rights as recognized by the United Nations:
READ ARTICLE 17:
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Your cryptographic keys which owns "property" on the blockchain, is your right, as a human being, as long as you are not arbitrarily deprived of his property.
So owning Bitcoin is your right. Owning STEEM is your right. No one shall be arbitrarily be deprived of that...
What does "arbitrarily" mean?
Well that's where it goes into the grey area again. It's no longer 1's and 0's, or TRUE or FALSE. No logic.
Arbitrarily under dictionary definition means:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/arbitrarily
decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.
Which means laws and statues can pop up at any given moment to lose your right to property.
Right now, we see, no one really knows if cryptocurrency is good or bad for the human race. There are thousands of PROS, and a few hundred CONS. So stopping cryptocurrency at this stage seems to be unethical and harmful to humans on this planet.
At some point we have to come back to basics, and maybe ask George Washington himself who was the first president of the United States and one of the founding fathers who once said:
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“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
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...and that is exactly the question raised today in courts, law, statutes, governments and investigations today.
I watched the Feb 6, 2018 congress meetings with CFTC and SEC on TV. Want to know how many times the first president of the United States was mentioned? ZERO Want to know how much the founding fathers vision for the country was mentioned? ZERO.
Do we deprive the basic UN human right to be arbitrarily deprived of his property (blockchain wealth) under the rule of law "upon the supposition he may abuse it?|" (as per George Washington's caution to us all)
The answer is NO, we should NOT
Judges, arbitrators, and those defining legislation and crafting your decisions, please take notice.
The key to society acquiescence is for the common man to be able to feel confident that the $10 he has earned to be spendable by him, and him alone. If you keep treading on that right of property and liberty it is eventually going to cause justice, statues, and laws, to be seen in disrepute.
If you want to catch terrorists, or illegal uses of funds, whether it be USD, GOLD, SILVER, BITCOIN, or SPICES.. you do so in a way that does not infringe upon the rights of the legal and human rights of citizens who hold property without malintent.
"Shoot the jews in the head" Hitler might have said. His officers obeyed.
"We need to stop Bitcoin some large Bankers and lobbyists might say"
See the parallel lines? Who do you listen to?
You must listen to your inner conscience.
Don't do what you know is inherently wrong. This goes to all humans reading this... if you are EVER asked to do something (or pass judgement on someone), that you know is wrong, just to earn a paycheck... and help those who insist on infringing on basic human rights, you're guilty just as they are.
For the world to survive it is our own inner realization that we must hold true, like 1's and 0's. It is either TRUE or FALSE.
We either want to see a better world with more accountability or we don't.
The blockchain is an immutable ledger. It protects everyone. Not just those anonymous. It protects the layman who has earned the $10 in his pocket and wants to trade it freely as he has the right to do so.
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So please stop attacking the blockchain as it the source of problems. It isn't. It is the endpoints that should have your focus and if you spend more time on that... you'll find the minority of bad actors that you are seeking.
Sorry I had to get this out... put it into the STEEM blockchain, and maybe long after I'm dead of old age, someone, somewhere may dig this up one day and say ... you know... when 
What do you think?
P.S. If you believe in cryptocurrency AND the human race, I recommend you re-steem this post.