"As a simple matter of definition, #Bitcoin operations cannot be both white market and permissionless. Any person operating in the white market requires permission to do so.
Bitcoin is therefore inherently a black market money. Its security architecture necessarily assumes it is operating without state permission.
The security of Bitcoin does not extend to white market systems. Any system dependent upon the value proposition of Bitcoin must also be black market."
Eric Voskuil in Cryptoeconomics
Replaced my old physical copy of that book recently. Should probably go through it again.
I love to think about this.
The problem is we still need, the insane, approval from goverment to be able to spend our money.
They set up the system that way only to rob us of course.
Once you see it you know we can't be really free untill we take back our freedom.
And that means most, all ?, taxes must be gone.
There is no system. You buy things from people. They take what money they want for their stuff. That's it.
How do you propose eliminating taxes? Ask the government nicely? Vote? There is but one way to eliminate taxes. It requires quite the lifestyle change.
根据一个简单的定义，比特币的运作不可能既是白市又是无需许可的。任何在白市中运作的人都需要获得许可。
因此，比特币本质上是一种黑市货币。其安全架构必然假定它是在没有国家许可的情况下运行的。
比特币的安全性并不延伸至白市系统。任何依赖比特币价值主张的系统，也必然是黑市的。
—— Eric Voskuil，《密码经济学》
所谓“白市”，不就是“税收供养的合法暴力垄断市场”么…… 通过合法暴力垄断，必然与集权——虽然不一定为极权——政治体制共生，这也是被大力鼓吹的“数字经济”的体制经济基础。双轨制必然要放弃一部分人——可接受的 Collateral Damage——他们甚至公开宣扬过“社会运转的本原逻辑”啊。
包括芬太尼税问题，对于目前谈判的技术障碍之一，我曾经调侃：实在不行，就让 IRS-CI 出面，和中国公安部对接吧？
在《ノルウェイの森》中，村上春树也写过一段关于“黑市”——“国家の庇護”——的观察：
“どうして夜のあいだ国旗が降ろされてしまうのか、僕にはその理由がわからなかった。夜のあいだだってちゃんと国家は存続しているし、働いている人だって沢山いる。線路工夫やタクシ︱の運転手やバ︱のホステスや夜勤の消防士やビルの夜警や、そんな夜に働く人々が国家の庇護を受けることができないというのは、どうも不公平であるような気がした。でもそんなのは本当はそれほどたいしたことではないのかもしれない。”
