Firstly sorry if my comment was harsh, I get you're the author. I didn't meant any disrespect. Many countries have currency restrictions. While you can hold fo

Firstly sorry if my comment was harsh, I get you're the author. I didn't meant any disrespect. Many countries have currency restrictions. While you can hold foreign currency in paper format, you can't do most of the transactions as you'll need a bank account or a middle men (like Western Union). How are you planning on buying bitcoins since no one, as far as I know, is going to pay you in BTC. You still need a middleman to get access to that currency and the most secure way is via exchangers that are accessible via bank-accounts (coinbase, mtgox, e-btc, etc.) Discrimination is also prevalent in banking. Just because you didn't have issues, it doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist. Sure it exists, between poor and rich. There was always in mankind history this strong discrimination. But I don't see any specific examples of other kind of discrimination here, I can't come up with any and you're not helping me either. In which cases, you have the money/assets, but you can't buy USD/EUR/Gold/Bitcoins??? [..] That's like saying if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. If you have money to hide, I'm pretty much sure that the people you are going to turn in order to hide them are bankers. So if you HAVE the money, finding privacy is not that hard, there are many WS giants[1] involved in money laundering for ages. Only the IRS does not know about it. [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/19/us-jpmorgan-whale-idUSBRE98I0JL20130919 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/19/us-jpmorgan-whale-...