You can’t withdraw digital money and stuff it under the mattress.

Stopping terrorists, drug dealers and of course making our lives simpler and easier. Those are the reasons for going cashless.

Like Jason Ditz says here not long ago Bitcoin was the bogeyman. Big time dealers and terrorists are quite adaptable. They would adapt to other currencies or methods of payment with ease I am sure.

If we were serious about putting a monkey wrench in the drug machine we would eliminate the CIA. Much funding for their schemes has come from drug transactions. It is thought crack was first introduced to LA through enabling Central and South American dealers as part of Iran/Contra funding.

Then again maybe not, I remember someone who said he would smash the CIA into a thousand pieces. His brains ended up scattered all over his wife. Read the rest of this entry »