There is more world beyond the US border

Regulation won't mean the end of anonymous transactions (Don't forget that if you buy something in a retail store you are not anonymous). Bitcoin works just the way cash does, you can just give it to someone on a piece of paper, there's no way to regulate such trade. Regulations are only for businesses and if you run one you want rules to be clear.

I assume OP is talking about bitcoins ability to regulate itself.
The technology is quite amazing. Revolutionary even

"Free market" is a misnomer anyway which leads to people crying "What about the children?!" demanding thugs use force to oppress the minority and fill their pockets while at it. There is no such thing as a free market. What there is, absent of thugs perpetrating violence and affecting market participants, is a market exclusively regulated by its consumers and where consumers spend their wealth, that's what is "approved", and where they don't that is what doesn't even need to be "forbidden" because it simply goes bankrupt, and none of the participants are forced either way.

Some people will follow government regulation and some people wont, Bitcoin allows both to coexist without any struggle at all.

*ugh*
If you think this (or any) digital protcol can survive over 5000 years, then you're pretty optimistic (mildly put), especially after a mere 3 years in experimental stage.
Unbreakable rules btw. don't exist. They're manmade - they can and will be broken eventually - by man. Never been different since the dawn of mankind.


I don't know what kind of army you operate - but when armed forces decide to end your little miner, they will simply do that (usually the miner don't care, but the owner looking into a smooth 20mm barrel of an APC and a bunch of 200lbs people in heavy gear usually gets the drift). Never underestimate the power of force, unless you can double it in half their time.
Nevermind that these forces can shutdown any of the many hightech requirements that your miner or Bitcoin applications permanently rely on to operate. Take a single one away and it ceases to have any meaningful function immediately.


True, but only if BitCoin isn't an invention of exactly these forces, which we simply don't know. Banks btw. don't have to care much about Bitcoin, they already hold most of the world's true money (which isn't replaceable by anything); plus they literally own the governments.

PS.
In these days we live in, when anyone advertises something as "the great saviour" and the solution to our problems (especially concerning finances)... My spidey senses are on bright red alert. Historically, exactly the opposite was true most of the time.

Maybe, but I'm not convinced. I have seen how prominent bitcoin representatives starts crawling when faced with official authorities and law enforcement.
Those who hold a lot of coins will let all principles go in order to protect their value. We have seen it before.

The use of multiple addresses in a wallet goes a long way to prevent blacklisting of coins from being efficient, but anonymity, or rather the technology that comes with it, would have been the ultimate stronghold against brutal dictators like Kim Jong-Un and Kim Dotcom.

Pardon me but are you high?

My $.02.

Nope. But thanks for reminding me!

Joe

You should be a government bureaucrat. Match made in heaven