I'm something missing? Is US only country on the earth? If they want to block it, no problem... It will be USA and US citizens problem, not Bitcoin itself.

If you had read *something* about BTC, you would know that it was designed taking into account a very likely government ban on it. A ban on BTC wouldn't do shit to stop it, to the contrary it would just make it stronger in the long term.

And by te way... With "black market sideshow" you mean an economy worth $1,800,000,000,000 per year? Yeah, that's 1,800 BILLION. That's good enough.

As I told you in another thread: if BTC is banned GLOBALLY, it will still go to 4 digits, probably 5. Do the maths, assuming you know how to google and count.

seriously ..    what is this..   this is not a Role Playing Game server you know..  
i'm sure you have an alt char somewhere here to play the bullish  female  high elve ..or something

The US has reach all over the world... All they gotta do is say they're doing it in the name of stopping terrorism and they can do just about anything. They don't even need proof (eg Iraq).

You can always use a VPN or route the connection through a TOR proxy. And there will be dozens of countries that won't have any problem with bitcoin, like Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, northern countries and dozens more that have many more important things to regulate because they either have a very low adoption or they are don't care about it.

USA has a currency that does not defend itself well lately because they are destroying it themselves printing it massively and they are now in the need to defend it.

But they will have to defend the dollar AGAINST the insterests of all the other countries of the world that after a POST-POST-IIWW don't think Breton Woods or Nixon's plan to abandon the gold are fair anymore. We are on the XXI century. Inmediately after WWII, United States was the only real power. That is not so clear at the moment and there are many superpower wanna-be countries that want to remove the dollar as default world currency. Bitcoin could very well help them in their interests and not only them but also any other country where the financial system is not working properly.

As someone had in his signature: Bitcoin is a hedge against the actual financial system

You know it's people like you who make me wish the rest of the world would just drop all their nuclear bombs on the US and wipe it from the face of the earth. Bitcoin doesn't need you or the US, I hope they officially ban it today in your country and label it as terrorism so I don't have to deal with pompous US nationalist people like you ever again.

I wish they'd ban it too actually.  We have Ripple coming so, what do I care.

You do not need mass adoption. Sure, to see the $300k per BTC predicted by rptard you need mass adoption. But I personally don't need to see $300k per BTC.

I'm happy with a system that gives me and the ones like me monetary freedom. A decentralized, trust-free system which allows me to store and transfer value independently from financial institutions. A system that no Government can kill, where my funds cannot be seized.

Yes, it sounds like "paradise" for black market. The truth is that it is, and what Coinseeker does not seem to understand is how fucking big is black market's economy. But it's also a paradise for those who want an hedge on the current, rotten financial system - as telemaco just said.

If you are worried about not seeing mass adoption and thus "cheaper" coins, do not worry. As you can see with drugs, everything that is banned and difficult/dangerous to get comes with a premium. Yet, I do not think there will ever be 6 figures coins in a global ban scenario - but 4 figures coins? You can take them for GRANTED.

Indeed. I have to admit that sometimes I have the same feelings, but then I realize that it's absurd to punish normal people because they had the bad luck to be born in a certain country where mentally ill people like Coinseeker live.