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Comment I started wondering... (Score 1) 134

Who really created Bitcoin and what this move to digital currency means for the future.
I have to admit I find a future of digital currency kind of creepy considering how easy it is for Nation States to monitor everything done online or in any network.

If we had a truly cashless society would there be the possibility of the anonymous purchase as you can with cash?

Yes I understand that was BC's whole thing, but what happens when you legitimize BC?
Does it remain anonymous or do you lose that some where in the chain of events required to use BC.

What if digital currency was the only thing, and it could be shut off in the event the police were after someone effectively taking their ability to purchase and therefore function.
What if everything we ever buy is known and stored by your friends the NSA or some other branch of (and I use the word lightly) government.

Comment Re:Mayan temples too (Score 1) 246

Why is anything historically significant?

Nothing is on a long enough time line, I'm not impressed with Mayan or Aztec temples, they were built the same way the pyramids were, with slaves, it was a brutal culture that only took one visitor to entirely decimate the population religion and language.

That's what cracks me up about the unified Latino people, they are a bunch of diverse indian tribes that got their asses kicked by the Spanish and now speak and practice a Caucasian language and religion.

Humans are stupid, we spend all our time comparing ourselves to each other, it's vanity in the extreme, I wish everyday that an alien race would land on this planet so we finally have a true comparison.
Lets see how "fantastic" we are when that happens.

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