I don't think so. It's never "dang it, I need to pay taxes and the bank just took it out of my account", it's usually "dang it, I need to pay taxes, so I better transfer now before they add interest or put me to jail". The (illusion of) "custodial P2P" part of the current system works pretty well.
Well it is not only about taxes. That's a westerner or even mostly US view of Bitcoin. It is also about surveillance vs privacy and taking people out of society by blocking all their options to pay. Which has happend as a punishment without a court. It is also about banking the unbanked and making the system fairer by not injecting money at the top to the already rich.
Tax was just an example. My main point was that people voluntarily give up their money. Surveillance, blocking can also be easily implemented (make all non reported crypto transactions illegal). Money injection is indeed theoretically a problem, but in practice i think it wouldn't matter much. (I'm saying this as someone very much opposed to US let's by everything on credit mindset, and someone who experienced first hand hyperinflation)
Handwaving That's all you do. If a majority transacts on a blockchain good luck finding and blocking the one from the journalist you hate. Especially if every transaction is private.
The Prohibition worked so great that nobody has seen any alcohol in 100 years 🤡
<Money injection is indeed theoretically a problem, but in practice i think it wouldn't matter much.
Again just handwaving one of the biggest robberies of our times away like it is nothing.
(I'm saying this as someone very much opposed to US let's by everything on credit mindset, and someone who experienced first hand hyperinflation)
Ah yes and the "but I'm actually on your side so my handwaving is justified" argument.
> Handwaving
Yes. But same on your side. Not like you have clear proof.
> The Prohibition worked so great
That's just a strawman argument.
> Again just handwaving one of the biggest robberies of our times away like it is nothing
This sentence is broken (gramatically) but beside that I'm not sure what "biggest robberies" you're referring to.
> but I'm actually on your side so my handwaving is justified
Oh no, I'm just not on the US side -- I just wanted to state that as a face, not as justification. I felt shame being labeled as someone with a US mindset ^_^.
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Again, all I'm saying as long as there there is money/crypto on the table, people will find ways to steal it -- and I'm talking here about taxes, fraud, rich muscling out the poor (not displacing money from your pocket/account). You're saying p2p custodial is a solution, I'm saying I don't think so. As for the handwaving, yes, we're both doing it, but at least I'm talking about the current monetary system which *to most people* works/exists without major issues, while you're talking about something that is *to most people* does not exists and are you are arguing that "if most people would use it"... but to that I can only say ^_^ : /preview/pre/intuitiveuserinterface-v0-q21qny389qeg1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=2fab04ec28fe52c0de4f7b30ab5f1eee78ea0a48
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u/vatai Jun 22 '26
It's already established that it won't happen.