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by iamben 1894 days ago
At no point did I say any of those things.

I did say that there is a prevailing undercurrent within the crypto space that government and fiat is bad and wrong and taxing people pretty much amounts to theft. And without some visibility into how much money someone has or is making, ensuring that someone fairly pays taxes becomes a lot harder.

As for the banking part - whilst I understand where you're coming from, cryptocurrency is nowhere near as 'safe' as a regular bank for (probably) 99% of the population. My mum can barely use Amazon...