| slapped | 04-20-2018 12:01 PM | Re: Bitcoin @ 7k and dropping bad... I agree 100% with everything you said,, except your price prediction timeline. Regulation is the only thing that will make this change happen, and that is way off. Unless Nations can somehow regulate Cryptos they will NOT allow them to replace conventional currency, plain and simple.
Allow me to give you another perspective on this. Take a look at our last Presidential Election, with all the talk of Russian, Meddling, phony news, ads and whatever else. At the CORE of ANY attempt to influence an election whether it be here or anywhere else in the world is MONEY.
It takes Money and lots of it to influence an election. That is the MAIN reason that there is talk right now of imposing financial sanctions on wealthy Russian individuals. It is because these individuals money was linked to political stories of ads running on Facebook, twitter and wherever else.
Can you imagine the potential effect that individuals or Governments themselves could have if they had the ability to funnel essentially untraceable, unlimited funds into the election process of ANY country? That's only 1 example, now think about Terrorism funding, and the effect Crypto currencies can potentially have in all of these dark areas.
If you think that Governments are going to rely on the possibility that law enforcement will someday develop methods to trace these transactions, your crazy.
These are only a couple of reasons why Governments around the world will keep these Crypto currencies in check |