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For some one not doing crime (or making donations to Wikileaks...) living in a country with a financial system, what is the point? Why bother?


Crime is defined by governments, many of which care more about maintaining or expanding their power than they do protecting individual's rights.

When governments become oppressive crime can be a good thing. Bitcoin can enable both bad and good crime. It's a neutral tool.


Because the people who control the money everywhere on this planet all simultaneously debase their phony currencies all the time over and over again, creating a hidden inflation tax that there was no way to avoid until bitcoin was invented.


So you can have your own financial system, while watching how the traditional one collapses




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