ImbolcGoat Getting black pilled just because the government gained control of some websites you don't actually need to use is silly.
The only advantages crypto holds are for groups who want to bypass the banking system that supports their entire regime.
As long as crypto currency can be purchased by United States Dollar Bills or other types of money controlled by the federal reserve it can never be used to achieve freedom because the federal reserve owners can generate unlimited money and then use that to buy the majority of any type of crypto currency
1. By that argument nothing can be used to achieve freedom because someone will always sell some of it for some amount of USD.
2. Hyperinflation exists. If they print infinite USD to try to purchase all of some commoddity then the USD will become infinitely worthless.
1st step to freedom
Convince at least 50% of police and 50% of the military of the following
not to believe in the moral legitimacy or moral authority or factual accuracy of claims from the following
list of governments that are currently members of the United Nations
clergy of all major religions. I did not say the religions but the clergy
mainstream media
Universities and schools
In addition teach at least 50% about cultic "mind control"
When they no longer believe in the things I listed it will follow that they will no longer use violence to enforce the value of money
Money has no value without violence because it's only utility is to pay taxes so you do not go to jail
If property taxes and possibly certain other taxes are not enforced with violence then money will lose it's value
People can still trade in other things than money
With property tax gone people can grow their own food
Before crypto took off I would have agreed, but your theory has to account for that glaring counterexample. No one violently enforced the value of bitcoin or monero or any of the other crypto and yet many of them are soaring in value.
As for the rest, yes, if you can convince a majority of the mechanism of violence within a state to abandon it then the state will collapse. At that point monetary collapse is just a detail though since they won't be able to enforce anything.
You can not eat crypto coins or build physical objects out of crypto coins
Crypto Currency also has unlimited potential for inflation
Even if there are a finite number of a specific type of crypto coins that can be created, there are a unlimited number of types of crypto coins that can be created, resulting in a unlimited supply of crypto coins because people can just create new kinds of crypto coins
The value of crypto coins is mental & created by faith
That hasn't affected it's success so far.
> Crypto Currency also has unlimited potential for inflation
> Even if there are a finite number of a specific type of crypto coins that can be created, there are a unlimited number of types of crypto coins that can be created, resulting in a unlimited supply of crypto coins because people can just create new kinds of crypto coins
That's not how inflation works. The US dollar didn't become weaker when the Zimbabwean government started printing trillions of Zimbabwean dollars.
Equally as more fly-by-night crypto projects took off it didn't make bitcoin less popular.
> The value of crypto coins is mental & created by faith
Yes. The same is true of any currency.
So I just think the world would be a better place if they did things because they want to accomplish a goal and not to make money
I think the world would be a better place if people stopped doing things for money or currency and started doing things to get the physical objects or services they want
I suggest we would be better off with a distributist but not Marxist economy with gifting, voluntary trade but not money nor involuntary taxes
It's not supposed to be the moral bedrock of society but it's power as a system shouldn't be discounted.
I've seen various ideas about how distributism could work over the years, but I think it's best chance of getting off would have to involve a strong market economy.
As for "gifting" I think our strongest solution to social problems was having small institutions funded and run locally. Basically bring back monestaries and convents.