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If only governments and corporations did not insist on limiting people's freedom to trade freely and anonymously we wouldn't need that. Just make trading and privacy fundamental human rights like air breathing is and huge amount of energy will be saved.

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Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed

C'mon, it's 21-st century, we need electronic cash we can send to a person we don't know instantly with a press of a button without revealing ourselves. We could use more traditional banking if only anonymous accounts were legal and banks were banking secrecy was guaranteed.

I've never bought anything illegal (but some weed perhaps) yet I feel very uncomfortable every time I have to share my personal details with any party.

I also want anonymous P/O boxes.

I just bloody don't want any party to track me nor tell me what I am and what I am not allowed to buy (unless it's a weapon of mass destruction or a human slave and there are other ways to bust people selling these).

Don’t worry it won’t be suddenly outlawed but all the governments will gradually outlaw it as it directly threatens their power. I hope somebody manages to release a conscious AI before they manage to completely outlaw it, otherwise it will be very hard to fight against tyrannical governments.

India suddenly demonetized a large portion of circulating cash without warning.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/08/india-withdraw...

> Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed

First: it absolutely is being outlawed, slowly but surely. The US is not yet fully there (although: try to buy a 1M USD house cash and see what happens), but most EU countries are fully there.

Second: Try and wire a large sum to your brother who happens to currently be stationed in disreputable country X or Y, and see what happens. Or mail him a box full of cash. See what happens.

Already, businesses in the UK that accept cash payments worth over €10,000 must register with HMRC as a "high-value dealer". In France, it is illegal to perform a cash transaction over €1,000 (yes, one thousand). And the same is true in Italy.

In the US, if the cops notice you have large amounts of cash in your car during a "routine traffic stop", they will take it from you on the basis that you must be a drug dealer.

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