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Bank of England and Treasury think UK is 'likely' to need digital currency

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Re: Bank of England and Treasury think UK is 'likely' to need digital currency

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> you refer to a 1978 privacy law which is irrelevant and not applicable This is wrong. Prior to the RFPA, there were no federal legal protections for these records. The IRS and SEC could request records without the customer’s or a judge’s permission. After, including now, they can’t. That’s far from irrelevant. > you now will perhaps even admit that after 2020 AML there is zero privacy in US banking system Still a s…

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> authorities can seize funds on this centralized ledger in numerous ways

This has nothing to do with centralisation or decentralisation. Cops can seize your physical foreign currency, gold, and yes, Bitcoin. Being able to seize something is a function of power, not topology.

> IRS can issue a summons for financial records to any US bank without any court order or justification

This is wrong. IRS summons are an administrative procedure that requires notice (with justification) and can be “quashed” [1]. In some cases they can notify you ex post facto, but that lowers the burden for quashing. To be sneaky they need to loop in Justice.

You’re continuing a pattern of issuing confidently worded, starkly incorrect readings of U.S. financial law.

> best they get to is that 50 mining operations control almost 50%

Count the number of people required to make decisions in this system. That’s political centralisation. A smaller number of people have absolute control over Bitcoin, through their control of mining operations and holdings, than comprise a majority of the Congress plus one (the President).

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7602

Re: Bank of England and Treasury think UK is 'likely' to need digital currency

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I have read all the comments here (always a pleasure) People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state I fear that too, but I fear private power more. Private power is accountable to none but the owners. Where I live the state can be held politically accountable. It is an imperfect system, and we the people are forever contesting control of the state with private power, but we have agency in that struggle Priv…

> People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state > I fear that too, but I fear private power more. Are there a lot of examples in history of private power controlling large populations that you could share? Oddly my recollection of history seems to include just a few of governments controlling and mass murdering populations but I’m struggling on the private power ones a bit …

> Are there a lot of examples in history of private power controlling large populations that you could share?

East India Company

Slavery

Henry Ford

Re: Bank of England and Treasury think UK is 'likely' to need digital currency

#103
post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state > I fear that too, but I fear private power more. Are there a lot of examples in history of private power controlling large populations that you could share? Oddly my recollection of history seems to include just a few of governments controlling and mass murdering populations but I’m struggling on the private power ones a bit …

> Are there a lot of examples in history of private power controlling large populations that you could share? East India Company Slavery Henry Ford

Henry Ford? The man that gave us the weekend?
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