Originally Posted by helterskelter808

The 'concept' was an anonymous currency that unchained us from *the goberments*. At least that's all I heard from bitards. Turns out it's not anonymous and it's taxable. Which I'm fairly sure 'anti-bitcoiners' said all along.

So it has none of the advantages of real money -- such as the small matter of being able to buy stuff with it -- but all of the disadvantages of real money.

In fact real money -- existing in the real world, as an untracked item passed from human to human -- is if anything more anonymous than bitcoin and more easy to 'forget' cutting the goberments in on.