Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut

Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by SadWebDeveloper on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:44PM (#15955318)

Governments can only limit exchanges, maybe fine or prosecute miners but they can't control the exchange market in other countries, they can't ban transactions between two peers, they can't takeover your funds and more importantly they can't issue more currency to paid their loans.

Sounds like a libertarian paradise but these also comes with double edge since it leaves his citizens without consumer protections, makes value speculative to trading volume therefore subject to foreign control and limits the government enforcing power.

The market is free, exchanges aren't.

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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by yeahsure on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:50PM (#15955368)

I'm talking about taxes distorting the market. A taxed market is not a libertarian paradise.

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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by SadWebDeveloper on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:01PM (#15955467)

you are talking about taxes after exchanging cryptocurrency for a fiat currency, cryptocurrencies doesn't have taxes (well transactions cost kinda work like a community tax but in the real world there are also transactions costs and taxes), exchanging from crytpocurrency to fiat has.

What stops you from exchanging your crytpocurrency to a fiat currency that doesn't impose taxes?

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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by yeahsure on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:24PM (#15956750)

Good point and I agree. That said I still don't think this would count like a true libertarian experiment because -like you point out- it is in the real world where you still have to abide by the rules of government/society.

But yeah, this is probably the closest we have gotten to a libertarian test-drive through technology.

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