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In this case, I call bullshit as well and have concluded it's:

A) Someone's "art project";
B) Someone trolling the Bitcoin community;
C) Someone trolling the sometimes-parallel-sometimes-not 'anarcho'-capitalist community;
D) Someone's giant "HEY LOOK AT ME I'M EDGY" attention-seeking statement to the world;
E) A potential opportunity for some guy to scam a bunch of BTC from white males with anger issues.

I think a "false flag" is pushing it.  The simplest answer is always the best.

"False flag" is being called so often these days that it is losing any genuine meaning.

Plus it's too often the argument from ignorance - "Well, what else could it possibly be?"

Guys, let's not get caught up in the semantics. Someone did it. They picked a really good moment (for them) with maximum public exposure. We don't know who this "Samurai" guy is, and I don't see how finding out would even be helpful, unless it somehow helps in talking him into taking the site down.

Stick with Alex Jones and Peter Schiff.

Max Keiser is just hyping the cryptocoins to make money.

Furthermore, false flags happen all the time around us. We just don't pay attention to them. They usually don't affect us.
In fact rather than less false flags, we should assume more should occur as people come to the realisation that agencies and even small organisations (bikies and gangs) have the opportunity to launch one!

Chaos means you don't have time to keep up with all the freedom. Just ride it.

What you think is correct has nothing to do with it.

There will be too much shit each of us don't agree with nor understand in the same shared way.

Bottom-up, individualism is a bitch of an adjustment psychologically when you've been accustomed to top-down, collectivism.

Fuck the regulators. You won't be able to control a damn thing, except maybe yourself.

Evil things happen because a few evil people were more organised. It's always like that.

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(Talk of "new paradigm" -- must be near the top of the bubble.)
What you're talking about is extremist, full of flaws, and will not play out how you think it will play out. It's all fun and games when theorising on politics fora about "which ideological story is better: Anarchy or Socialism?" But when people start playing with others' lives, I think it's time someone told you that you guys need more theory homework.

Look at the chart of Rome's population falling from 1.4 million to 30,000.

Global financial implosions are chaotic.

Your ordered world is going to take a flying fuck.

Order is being propped up by debt. Check out this chart of developed countries TOTAL debt-to-GDP, e.g. 550% in UK:

http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/11855-total-debt-to-gdp.html#axzz2iu5C4Y4Z

I suggest you read this:

http://blog.mpettis.com/2013/10/hidden-debt-must-still-be-repayed/

Debt restructuring is always paid by someone. The only issue is who will pay and how we go about getting them to pay.

The difference range the gamut from "off with their heads" (the loan sharks and crony officials) to Madmax (when the former two can ram it down the throat of the middle class by suckering the middle class into socialism).

Either way, we will see a period of chaos.

The order and the debt go hand-in-hand, no matter which you put first in your sentence.

Updated OP:


This is how I see things potentially playing out. At first, nobody takes the threat seriously. Everyone who has followed Bitcoin has seen so many scams and would-be disasters that were supposed to destroy Bitcoin but failed, that we've become numb to it all.

Occasionally a few coins get deposited, and it's seen as black humour for the lulz. Who cares if it's probably a scam and the creators will disappear with the money? It's Bitcoin -- stuff like that happens all the time. It's a risk people take when trying to remain anonymous, and 2-party escrow is still in beta. Authorities probably could take down the website if they wanted to. IF.

Meanwhile, the funds slowly add up and eventually they reach a tipping point. Whether it's because of slow accumulation or rising exchange rate doesn't matter. Some big-name politician gets killed, and that's when the SHTF.

Suddenly, the news is 100 times worse than Silk Road ever was. Massive regulation ensues. Innocent Bitcoin enthusiasts, miners, early adopters, and developers get arrested. Masses of people who don't care about any alternative political systems like Laissez-faire, Anarchy, Anarcho-Capitalism, Libertarianism, Zeitgeist Movement, etc., they see this from the POV of "normal" people: murder caused by Bitcoin and therefore it must be stopped.

And who gains in all of this? Not some phantom government which is supposedly evil and coercive -- they're just taking bribes like all good Capitalists. It's the fucking dinosaur banking sector.