It may be a joke and he may not believe it, but in the era of austerity, NIRP, unemployment and fighting against the interests of powerful institutions, it is a pretty powerful statement.

most ppl still have not caught onto the idea that Bitcoin is fundamentally about honesty and hope.  the last couple of days worth of SR reading surely should highlight how deep the corruption runs into our gvt agencies that were supposed to help and protect the public good.  they have morphed into just the opposite; a threat feeding off the free money and the masses.  this is why the inflation/deflation debate is a non-starter. the current inflationary system is corrupt and serves a small financial elite who control the money supply or who are in important authoritarian positions as were the 2 agents.  those of us early Bitcoin adopters are not demanding a new system that allows us to replace those corrupt individuals; all we want is a fair system.  what we've done is also put our money where our mouths are; into a risky new currency that introduces a level playing field for all involved.  it could just as easily fail.  but at this pt i think it is highly unlikely given how far we've come.  the cat is out of the bag and Bitcoin is stimulating concerned discussions in all gvts worldwide.  there is enough decentralization at this pt where no one gvt can shut it down.  the corruption has got to stop.

There is quite a bit of propaganda devoted toward distracting people from the value of honest money.

A lot of people have a vested interest in making sure the masses never recognize that is Bitcoin's killer app.

you're confounding the dishonest users of Bitcoin from the protocol itself which cannot be exploited to alter it's preprogrammed supply unlike we have now with fiat.

The worse of which, apparently, are federal law enforcement agents.

Did you really just put a man who ran an honest business that harmed no one in the same moral category as two gangsters who ran an extortion racket under the colour of law?

Thank you for contributing to the general decay of ethics, law, and civilization, asshole.

I'm sure this EO will never be misused...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31443f/donating_to_snowden_is_now_illegal_and_the_us/

... you have zero evidence for this shameful lie. You are just a propaganda shill for stupidly repeating it, calling it a "fact" makes you a prime AH.

Bitcoin is used no more, but probably less to "commit crime" than fiat currencies as a percentage of total bitcoin usage. In terms of total overall usage, cash USD by many orders of magnitude has the largest volume in criminal activity.