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Precisely. Holding an official currency gives you the ability to stop the government from putting you in prison for nonpayment of taxes. This is a real tangib
by jellicle 15y ago
Precisely. Holding an official currency gives you the ability to stop the government from putting you in prison for nonpayment of taxes. This is a real tangible value that is a sort of baseline value store for official currencies that does not exist for other currencies.
- stcredzero 15y agoSo, it's just a combination of money = power, and "All power comes from the end of a gun."
- iwwr 15y agoPower doesn't come from the gun, but from public legitimacy. In the same manner that it would be considered legitimate for someone to defend themselves with a gun.
- stcredzero 15y agoThat was a reference to Mao.
- jared314 15y agoSo, we need a gun store that uses bitcoins.