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The End of Cryptocurrency Coming?
Armstrong Economics ^ | 8 Mar 22 | Martin Armstrong

Posted on 03/08/2022 5:59:42 PM PST by delta7

Blog/Cryptocurrency Posted Mar 8, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Spread the love more

I warned ion the private blog that cryptocurrencies may end up being suspended. The excuse will be Russia and the news is out now that Biden will sign an Executive Order to regulate cryptos because Russia can use it to circumvent sanctions. Not only is Biden authorizing the regulation of digital currencies, but he is also instructing to move forward with a central bank cryptocurrency. Once that is done, all other cryptocurrencies will be seized and folded into the government’s crypto. There will be no competition. Money historically has also been the Divine Privilege of Kings and Tyrants.

Biden is now proposing to ban all Russian Energy sales to the West. Prices will rise sharply still and Biden is blaming Putin claiming this is the “price of freedom” for Ukraine which is all BS so governments can avoid responsibility for the collapse in the supply chain thanks to COVID and their shutting down fossil fuels for Climate Change.

Now it is time to blame Putin for the continued rise in gasoline which is their agenda to save the planet. Their clock in NYC that they were telling the world we had only 7 years left if we did not ban fossil fuels is being accomplished under the pretense of “freedom” for Ukraine.

Macron desperately needs this war to fulfill his agenda and role in the grand scheme. Macron has been arguing for a European Army and they need this war to justify not NATO, but a new EU Army that is not bound by NATO rules and treaties. The EU Commission has been working on its proposal to establish a joint budget for the Eurozone since 2017, which is the endgame of federalization. The aim was to cement the monetary union in place and thereby prevent any more BREXIT nonsense from their view. Now they are pushing to issue an EU Bond and they are now using this war with Russia as a power grab to federalize Europe.

We now have private companies throwing Russians out in every possible context. The Russians have replaced the Jews of Germany. They are now regarded as swine and nobody should do any business with them whatsoever. This war is part of the Great Reset. They can no longer fund the governments and Keynesian Economics has collapsed. This is all part of the agenda and it is being carried out in sequence….


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To: oblomov

There won’t be any fleeing to another country to escape I think. When the switch happens, it will happen everywhere.

Maybe there will be some community in the interior of a jungle you could hide in I guess.


61 posted on 03/09/2022 6:24:26 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s not going to happen, and I’m willing to make a friendly bet on it.

They’ll regulate it like other investments, but not ban it.


62 posted on 03/09/2022 6:27:11 AM PST by oblomov
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To: Spktyr

“Three letters: VPN.”

VPN in no mystery and costs zero these days. Get free Proton VPN. I have it and never even turn it on. Though, I will use it to get a new Gmail account without giving a phone number.

The free Proton VPN might be basic. I don’t know. Free means your VPN is routed through three choices. USA/ Dutch/ Japan servers. No torrents allowed, though with Windscribe VPN you can get free 10GB/month torrenting.


63 posted on 03/09/2022 6:37:46 AM PST by dennisw
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To: cymbeline

Not necessarily. Technically yes, but many are located in countries that don’t have extradition or prosecution agreements with the US and refuse any requests. They reply to such requests with “we don’t log access and use, so there are no records to give you and you can’t make us.”


64 posted on 03/09/2022 6:43:13 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Fido969

I am wondering what your imagination is telling you about an EMP?

Even the largest solar flare in post-morse code time took out a few hundred miles of telegraph line. Not exactly world ending.

To facilitate an EMP on the North American continent would require many (five to ten) nuclear explosions high over the land. How do you think that would turn out for the world.

Your comment sounds good. But it reflects a thought process that does not include the impact of a natural event, or the “what then” aspect of a man made event.

As long as their are six computers in the world that have bitcoin nodes, the block chain can be propagated in minutes.

Its a tad bit more robust than a power surge.


65 posted on 03/09/2022 6:50:53 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: delta7
"all other cryptocurrencies will be seized and folded into the government’s crypto"

People who write articles like this do not understand crypto.  It's hillarious to read.  It reminds mean of the people that that say I am for blockchain, but against Bitcoin.  Bitcoin is blockchain. It's the original blockchain. This is very basic, and they do not understand that. 

Anyhow, let me give you the basics that these fools do not understand for people struggling to understand this.

 

1) Crypto currency is not tangible like U.S. dollars. You cannot hold it physically in your hands. It exists in a virtual world on Digital Ledger. The Ledger is on millions of computers around the world. People saying the government can seize crypto is like saying saying government will seize the Internet. How can you seize something that is virtual and you cannot touch? Shutting down Bitcoin or other crytos is not possible unless you shut down the entire internet.

2) Cryto currency is decentralized. That means you it's users do not have to go though a bank, a centralized Exchange or some other middle man to send or receive crypto currency to each other. Thus, they can send crypto directly to each other simply on any computer, tablet or smart phone around the world. Much like sending an email to each other.

3) There are Centralized Exchanges and Decentralized Exchanges. The Centralized Exchanges work within a local countrie's laws, regulations, etc.. The dencralized Exchanges do not.

4) The are only 3 ways a government can take crypto from a user.  The first possible would be at a centralized exchange where the use left all of  their crypto on the Exchange, and the centralized Exchange agreed to do it.  The second way is if the user gives the governement their private keys.  The third and last is if the the government steals the private keys (24 words). The above cannot happen if a user moves their crypto into a private wallet or a decentralized exchanges.

5) Cypto currencies never really leave a Ledger.  The cypto is simply recorded and moves into different accounts on the virtual ledger via a hash key (64, 128 or 256 bit key).

6) Crypto currencies are a computer program running.  It can't be controlled in other words. They are following a computer protocal.  

7) There is not 1 blockchain.  There are thousands. This simply means it's virtually impossible to track, identify and keep a record of who is who on all the Ledgers around the world. 

8) The centralized banks do not know how to make crypto or maintain it. They are actually go to others to make their CBDCs that will operate on their own seperate tacking platform. Because it will track people it will not sell, and drive people into crytpo currencies.

9) The U.S. does not control the world finances.  Thus any strong hold move they make will make crypto currencies stronger, and only apply to U.S. users.  It will accelerate the death of the dollar going against it.

10) The best move they can do is work with it. This is because they cannot control the virtual world computer programs that are around the entire planet.  Furthermore, some of it is offline and not evern accesable. Moreover, centralized exchanges doing this will run out their users, shrink, and possibly go out of business if they give up a users holdings.

 

That was the original purpose of Bitcoin is so that people do not lose their purchasing power. For the record, if governments could really shut down Bitcoin, then it would have happened a long time ago.  The people who write articles like this are most likely invested in something else. Thus, that is why they do not even understand the very basics of crypto currency.

66 posted on 03/09/2022 7:49:11 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: delta7
Gold and silver have no counterparties.

Gold is money, and nothing else.

67 posted on 03/09/2022 8:32:00 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Proud member of the control group)
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To: Spktyr

“Technically yes, but many are located in countries that don’t have extradition “

Maybe I’m paranoid and anyway I don’t have any transactions I’d like to hide, but big brother would know of the foreign-country VPN sites and could consider me suspicious if I used them.


68 posted on 03/09/2022 10:15:06 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

They can have endpoints inside the US that they own, or you can do some fun with chaining VPN connections together as it is possible to run a VPN inside a VPN. Not efficient, but still doable.


69 posted on 03/09/2022 10:50:36 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Gold is money, and nothing else.
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….and insurance. People have life insurance, car insurance, home insurance, health insurance…..why not currency insurance? Unlike paper, PM’s can never ( at least not in 2,000 years) go to “ zero”, unless of course it is stolen.


70 posted on 03/09/2022 10:52:04 AM PST by delta7
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Gold is an insurance on your purchasing power today.


71 posted on 03/09/2022 3:43:10 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: delta7
Bitcoin cash machines ordered to shut down in UK

All UK crypto-currency cash machines (ATMs) are operating illegally and must be shut down, the Financial Conduct Authority has announced.

Crypto-ATMs look like regular cash machines and let people buy crypto-currency, such as Bitcoin, using their bank cards.

But no company offering crypto-currency services in the UK has a licence to operate a crypto-ATM.

The FCA said all such machines must be shut down or it will take action.

According to crypto-ATM directory Coin ATM Radar, there are 81 functional crypto-ATMS in the UK.

The FCA said: "We regularly warn consumers that crypto-assets are unregulated and high-risk which means people are very unlikely to have any protection if things go wrong.

72 posted on 03/13/2022 11:03:03 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

When virtual money (Bitcoin ETAL) finally takes on a real form, they will be minted using a silver/Unobtainium alloy.


73 posted on 03/14/2022 5:00:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: delta7

Greenies prevail

The only good greenie is a dead greenie

This includes your neighbor across the street


74 posted on 03/14/2022 5:03:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Fido969
Or...



75 posted on 03/14/2022 5:03:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Boogieman

“He will cause EVERYONE to have the number of the beast...


76 posted on 03/14/2022 5:05:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vermont Lt
...the largest solar flare in post-morse code time took out a few hundred miles of telegraph line.

Out of how many total miles in the world?

What percentage of phone lines need to die to kill the net?

77 posted on 03/14/2022 5:07:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This is the complete and utter beauty of cryptocurrencies; they’re untouchable by governments

Yes, as simple electrons, they are indeed "untouchable by governments".

But the flesh and blood who traffic in them are in no sense untouchable, and I expect the touching to begin quite soon.

78 posted on 03/14/2022 5:08:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Elsie

Bitcoin has a real but very transient form.

Bitcoins are physical during the process where they are electrons being transferred from one electronic ledger to another. Physical reality is very short lived and irrelevant as a necessary transition from ledger to another

1 Electron Mass (me) is equal to 9.109389699E-31 kilograms,


79 posted on 03/14/2022 5:11:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Vermont Lt

Telegraphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.[22] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[23] Some telegraph operators could continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.[24]

Some telegraph lines seem to have been able to produce a sufficient geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field to allow for continued communication with the telegraph operator power supplies switched off.[25] The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American Telegraph Line between Boston and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Traveler:

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."

Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."

Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"

Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually."

Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."

Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"

Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, and it was said that this was the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.[26]


In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the cost of a similar event in the present to the U.S. alone at US$0.6–2.6 trillion,[3] which at the time equated to roughly 3.6% to 15.5% of annual GDP.

80 posted on 03/14/2022 5:18:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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