Sorry, I don’t get the connection to population control. As to their motives for making competing currencies illegal, I haven’t read enough to find out why. By the way, don’t most countries make it illegal to use alternative currencies, or even bartering? I suppose the motive there is to enforce tax collection.
Many here in EC accuse the government of wanting to use digital currency as a way of monitoring people, but again I don’t know enough about it yet to comment intelligently. Gary On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Gary writes: > > > > “As part of the legislation to introduce its own digital currency, it > also made it illegal to use any other digital currency, e.g. Bitcoin.” > > > > An obvious motive would be population control, and secondarily as a new > surveillance mechanism. Displacing cash with digital currency could be a > tactic to keep closer tabs on how money is used. What explanation do they > give? > > > > Marcus > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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