Originally Posted by
francesco.decaro
You REALLY don't want people buying Bitcoin, do you?
You know the reason why that quote is so famous is because your bitcoins are not traceable, so you can say you simply lost them, which also used to be pretty common in the early days.
Nobody loses their gold, silver, ammo or firearms. So it doesn't really apply.
Plus, they take up space, they are not as easy to buy off the record as bitcoins are, and it's more expansive to find a secret place to hide them where no one would think of looking. Especially your firearms and ammo, which I guess you wanna keep as close as possible to you.
So, as much as you are trying to divert the attention from Bitcoin with more practical use of money, I feel like I should reiterate that bitcoins ARE money, which allow you to buy all that stuff without being so easily traceable. Again, that is the whole point. If you use fiat to buy things, they are not really 100% yours, because governments and banks can track it and seize it, pretty much all of the time, without that much effort.
If you use bitcoins it's way harder for them to make this happen. And the more people use them, the harder it gets, because instead of buying btc on some centralized exchange and keeping it there, there would be highly frequent peer-to-peer exchanges, and people would quickly learn how to be as anonymous as they can be.