Not on the ledger. If they can tie a purchase to you, they can tax your butt or throw you in jail. Basically, they can do whatever they want. And there is a lot of land around, but I guess they could do the same with gold.
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Unless you hold your gold and sleep on it there is always counter party risk ... St George slays the dragon sitting on his gold lol
I guess the point I'm trying to make is this. Don't view btc as a utopia. There are numerous obstacles. 1) regulatory I mentioned. 2) commoditization -- wall street btc futures, etfs, banks, sovereigns. Markets can be cornered, fixed, and have been, like gold. Shorting will happen, so take advantage. 3) Sovereign control. If btc challenges central bank control, then central banks will take control. If so, you lose. If central banks adopt as currency, go back up to #2.
If you hold, you will be OK long run, as long as it is not outlawed, but volatility might get scary. So, don't paint it as a panacea, deal with it as it evolves.
It solves money, solving money is a pancea the world needs desperatelt ... there is no alternative to a bitcoin utopia ... it is as real as all our collective hopes and dreams ... unless we get smashed by a golden astroid lol
It really doesn't solve money, if central banks control it. As an analogy, let's say you have a fixed number of dollar bills, and the gov says we will never print another dollar bill. So as the economy grows, the demand for commensurate dollars grows, and the dollar skyrockets in value. Deflationary spiral, and gov, a net borrower defaults, or economy goes into depression. So the gov comes out and says, you know, that dollar (btc) you own? It's not worth 100k, we are going to devalue and say it is worth 50k. And Mr hodler, if we catch you doing any funny shit on the side, we will consider you a counterfeiter. We have an irs agent on the way to discuss this with you.
Yes if gov is able to capture large enough amount to continue to be able to exersise power and maintain the friction that results in action. When enough individuals hold sufficient bitcoin incentives are in favor of individuals .. somethin like that ..global consensus network gov is irrelevant uninstall from brain ... trustless systems with continuously verifiable behaviors