Narwhal Tacos on Nostr: This is a pivotal story, imo, pre-dating Ross Ulbricht and the Samorai Wallet devs, ...
This is a pivotal story, imo, pre-dating Ross Ulbricht and the Samorai Wallet devs, about how the Deep State/US Gov’t has been targeting and building an “off the books” case against Bitcoin. This fascinating interview (skip about 20mins in to get to the meat) outlines the early steps in the (then) soft-war to build a straw-man legal basis for extra-legal activities.
Arrest first, compile a case after. This first tactic was to freeze-out independent developers of the burgeoning Bitcoin ecosystem, and create a controlled firewall around it that only “officially approved” developers can interact with it.
They didn’t recognize Bitcoin for the threat it was to them, now they’re treating Bitcoin like they treated every errant country in the World…the standard CIA playbook.
The secondary tactic btw is “taxation”, esp unrealized gains taxes on Bitcoin. The goal now is to force all us Plebs who front-ran, to sell it to them for freely-printed Fiat paper money. They won’t come to our houses, they’ll send us a bill. And if you didn’t buy on exchange, you’ll be sent to IRS court for an interview.
The Deep State doesn’t hate Bitcoin. They WANT the Bitcoin.
Which means they have to get it from us.
The War against Bitcoin has not even begun. They will turn us all into Saylors.
This is the Tea Party the gun-toting Libertarians never had the huevos to take on.
https://rumble.com/v5k0get-targeted-for-bitcoin-inside-ian-freemans-unjust-conviction-by-the-governmen.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp
Arrest first, compile a case after. This first tactic was to freeze-out independent developers of the burgeoning Bitcoin ecosystem, and create a controlled firewall around it that only “officially approved” developers can interact with it.
They didn’t recognize Bitcoin for the threat it was to them, now they’re treating Bitcoin like they treated every errant country in the World…the standard CIA playbook.
The secondary tactic btw is “taxation”, esp unrealized gains taxes on Bitcoin. The goal now is to force all us Plebs who front-ran, to sell it to them for freely-printed Fiat paper money. They won’t come to our houses, they’ll send us a bill. And if you didn’t buy on exchange, you’ll be sent to IRS court for an interview.
The Deep State doesn’t hate Bitcoin. They WANT the Bitcoin.
Which means they have to get it from us.
The War against Bitcoin has not even begun. They will turn us all into Saylors.
This is the Tea Party the gun-toting Libertarians never had the huevos to take on.
https://rumble.com/v5k0get-targeted-for-bitcoin-inside-ian-freemans-unjust-conviction-by-the-governmen.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp