You're not wrong, but Bitcoin is like a gun. It's not really super useful as an individual, alone, if your threat model is the massive government you live under.

It's about cost-benefit, and we win this calculation.

So what, if they know where we all live. They have to come confiscate it. If they want to spend their resources confiscating, they will take from Blackrock and Coinbase and real sovereign Bitcoin owners will be far too expensive to attack in aggregate.

Be expensive to steal from! It's so easy. Make an exit plan, like if you were living in Syria or something. Guess what, they can't stop you. That's why they won't come for you.

Like trying to squeeze water, it will escape through your fingers. They'd rather have your sales taxes and none of your Bitcoin than to see you escape entirely.

Don't stick your head out, and be the first target, but there is no hope for the State in your proposed scenario. Let them come. They make it obvious their weak position when they do. This isn't 1933 where the only people who understand money and gold and realpolitik of international political and banking relationships were insiders and experts.

If you prepare for conflict, you prevent it. Bitcoin is maximum preparation. Come what may, I have the options.

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I share your point of view, but we need to accelerate adoption among individuals, we need to make Bitcoin black money.

There is never a single tax to be paid on Bitcoin.

Increasing adoption It is what everyone is working tirelessly for.

You’re innocent if you believe that. Keep that.

May I humbly observe that using terms like "black markets/money," "under the table," and similar derogatory language casts our good, moral, ethical, honest cause in a false light?

Let us rather frame the discussion in reality; let us shine the light of truth on the lying, thieving, satanic bastards whose arrogant perfidy is destroying the world.

We need to speak of bitcoin as "honest money," we engage in the "free market," our commerce provides Value for Value to the CREATORS and PRODUCERS of that value and NOT to the parasitic, bureaucratic state leeches who sit on their asses presuming some imaginary right to interpose theft into the middle of every human transaction...

Gentlemen, LANGUAGE is important; let us use it on our own TRUTHFUL terms to accurately describe what we are about--existing descriptions where available, but TRUTHFUL words, even if it means having to invent colorfully descriptive new phrases...😃

FREE markets

HONEST money

DURABLE money

LASTING funds

WHITE commerce

BENEFICIAL markets

FAMILY value for value

...etc...

I consider myself an agorist and a believer in the postulates of Samuel Edward Konkin III, so I think the term black market is correct.

People really don't want to do business in Bitcoin units because Bitcoin is not the only money out there, and never will be. It cannot ever be the only money by way of it's open source. It was copied immediately.

It will always be preferable to spend the bad money, take loans for it, make contracts to pay people months and years in advanced in bad money.

We will probably always be looking to spend some stable-coins, preferably decentralized autonomous stable-coin type things from locking up Bitcoin on lightning somehow. Like the money we have now is borrowed-dollars coming from real bond assets being locked up.

Bitcoin is replacing bonds, not dollars. The dollar's current global power comes from the bonds, not the token that spends.

If you want to evade taxes to prevent the government from having that power to spend, you don't need people to accept Bitcoin, you just need them to accept decentralized payment rails. You need to use decentralized stable-coins and then you're as anonymous as can be, in the payment, but the vendor gets dollars back to a USD bank account without the privacy leak for you.