Whatever was the technological urge for Mr Satoshi in creating the block chain technology and Bitcoin is a thing of the past. The present status of Bitcoin is as a currency of the criminals. Many of my friends may hate me for saying this but I would like to say Bitcoin today is a currency of the criminals, by the criminals and for the criminals. It is not for honest individuals. It could have been at one time..but not today.
All Bitcoin holders are not criminals… but they could be
This is not to say that all those persons who possess Bitcoins today are criminals. But Bitcoin as a commodity and used as a currency is a product meant for criminals. If honest persons want to also use it, it is their choice.
(Ed: Reminds me of a Kannada proverb: “ಈಚಲ ಮರದ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಕುಳಿತು ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ ಕುಡಿದಂತೆ ” meaning “Like sitting under a palm tree and drinking butter milk” )
Bitcoin is the Perfect Black Money
There is a wide support for Bitcoins in India and the support is not surprising at all considering that India is a leading country in the world when it comes to corruption and Black money.
Bitcoin is a “Perfect Black Money” because it is anonymous and transferable across the globe at the click of a button. Just as an e-mail flies across, lakhs of rupees can fly across from India to another country either to one’s own account or to somebody elses’s account.
A Bitcoin wallet which can hold multiple Bitcoin addresses or a simple Bitcoin address for a single transaction can be created as easy as signing up for an e-mail account without any KYC formalities. Money can be transferred into this wallet or address by buying Bitcoins in cash or through bank account or through cards or through western Union or Paypal. If money is transferred through Bank account then there may be a KYC and identification. But there are other means that the black money people know which can easily convert their black money into Bitcoins.
It is therefore correct to call Bitcoin as the “Perfect Black Money”.
Bitcoin is also instantly fungible into 1317 (as of Dec 31, 2017) other crypto currencies at a click of a button and also convertible into a few legit currencies in the world.
Hence there is no doubt that many Indians including many in the Government bureaucracy and in regulatory agencies are very much in favour of Bitcoins being legally recognized so that all their ill gotten wealth can be held in the “benami numbered account” called Bitcoin addresses or wallets. Each transaction can be in a different Bitcoin address and for much less than 1 bitcoin (1 bitcoin can be reduced into units of bitcoins starting from a Satoshi which is 1 bitcoin divided by 100 million).
As it is, Bitcoin addresses are anonymous since they are public keys associated with private keys of a crypto key pair and the owner holds the private key confidentially. Whoever knows the private key is the owner of the bitcoin. If one wants to transfer the bitcoin, to another, he can do so simply by transferring the bitcoin in his control to another bitcoin address or wallet whose private key is known only to the transferee.
What more do you want to call Bitcoin a “Perfect Black Money” and a darling of all those who support black money and corruption in India?
All this is being explained here not to make people knowledgeable so that they can adopt to the use of Bitcoins to hide their black money. if this happens, it would be a tragedy.
Have you been already poisoned?
But the reason I am putting out this post in public is to tell our decision makers in the Government of India including Mr Modi, Mr Amit Shah, Mr Arun Jaitely and others that when you hear some experts saying that Bitcoin is great, Block chain technology is even greater, that country and this country has legalized Bitcoins etc and try to coax you into believing that all those who are opposing Bitcoins are either technology sceptics or jealous of others who are making money etc, please donot believe them. Many of them might have already asked you to have a “Free Trial of Bitcoin technology” and created an account for you and loaded some bitcoins in your account already. Remember that this is “Poison” and if you touch it, you will be consumed by it.
If you are still not touched by this poison, please come out boldly and confirm it to the citizens of India. Otherwise we will presume that you are all already posioned with Bitcoin.
Why Bitcoin is a currency of the Criminals, By the criminals and for the Criminals?
Bitcoin was created by the criminal syndicates of the dark web who sell crime ware, viruses, conduct ransomware attacks, extort money, sell drugs and illegal arms both offline and online. They obviously donot want any central authority to know of their transactions and hence prefer to deal with Bitcoins. Mr Satoshi who remains anonymous till date could be the biggest crook of all and posing himself as a technologist created an infrastructure for criminal funding.
The entire eco system of Block chains was created to support criminal activity and along with the spread of cyber crimes, the popularity of Bitcoins and other crypto currencies as well as the underlying technology respectably called the innovative “Block Chain” grew. Blockchain is the alter ego of Bitcoins and many believe that if Block chain technology is pushed into the main stream then Bitcoins will automatically survive and grow.
Bitcoin itself is a creation of the software and there is no physical currency or backing of a reserve or a Government promise. But it is being traded at a value of Rs 13-15 lakhs per bitcoins. Now a “Derivative of the Bitcoin” is being created which is another level of imaginary “virtualization of the virtual” with a value proposition for the gullible to pick up. It is a “bubble of bubbles” in another perspective and could burst along with the Bitcoin bubble one day ..unless the world is full of people who want to live in the dream of bubbles. There are many such people around now and they are their tribe may even grow further.
We also note that already Bitcoin block chain has hard forked once and it is anticipated that a third fork is likely to form soon. What it means to the bitcoin value, only future will unveil.
Those who are promoting Bitcoins in this uncertain environment are only trying to fool others and make money. Hence the system is full of criminals.
It is therefore not surprising that Cyber Criminals in the dark web transact only with Bitcoins (or its fungible new versions like Monero or Ripple etc, which may be more secretive than Bitcoins and better for Black money holders).
Since there are only Criminals who are technologically savvy who are working around these Crypto currencies, they also indulge in ICO scams, hacking int Crypto currency exchanges, creating malwares for mining bitcoin/crypto currencies and embedding it into softwares, apps, IoT applications etc so that all of us will use our data and devices to work as slaves and mine cryptocurrencies silently for the criminals as part of the Crypto botnet.
Is Government of India unaware of this?
I would not believe that Mr Arun Jaitely or the Finance Secretary or the SEBI Chairman or the RBI Governor is unaware of the fact that Bitcoin is a “Perfect Black Money” and hence it is great for politicians and other black money holders.
But Government strangely says that “They are Observing”… Observing what?.. the speculation where 4-5 lakh members of the public have already invested in bitcoins through the exchanges? We can note that these are innocent persons who have given their KYC and received notices.. this does not include those who have opened Bitcoin wallet account with agencies outside India including in Singapore which is developing into a hub of Bitcoin exchanges even for Indian entrepreneurs.
What the Finance Ministry is doing in being a silent supporter of speculation is absolutely unacceptable. They are deliberately not taking action to ban the use of Bitcoins. Chairman of SEBI is publicly in favour of Bitcoins. Ministry gives out conflicting statements now and then so that speculation thrives. RBI appears to be against Bitcoins but seems to have been kept silent by the Finance Ministry.
I want Mr Modi to show his commitment to removal of Black money in India by immediately taking up a total ban on all Privately created Crypto currencies like Bitcoin, Ripple, Etherium, Monero etc…
Mr Amit Shah may kindly note
If Modi Government does not ban Bitcoins and Crypto currencies, it will appear as if the Government has developed a cold feet in its fight against Black money and corruption. It will lose the moral authority to say that they have done everything to root out Black money.
This matter may come to haunt BJP in its next election in Karnataka where they have to explain why BJP was interested in demonetization of physical currencies only and are not willing to demonetize the crypto currencies?….
Security Issues
Apart from the issue of Black money creation, recognition of Bitcoins in India will bring in a market capitalization of over Rs 36 lakh crores of money into the floating currency in India and could completely upset the economic stability of the country.
Most of this Rs 36 lakh crores would be in the control of our enemies including China and ISI and will be used to fund terrorists in India. It will be impossible to trace the ownership and transactions of these currencies and our law enforcement persons will be looking like bakras when they have to prove “Money Trail” in Courts in corruption and criminal cases.
Criminals will go scot-free and Terrorists and Naxalites will be able to get funds easily for their operations to break India.
This is the future of India if Bitcoins are not eliminated from the Indian scenario forthwith.
History will Judge Mr Arun Jaitely
Mr Arun Jaitely will go down in history as the person who by his inaction to ban Bitcoin caused the country to collapse.
Will he or Will he not? …ban Bitcoins and all Crypto currencies…. now or when? will be the question.
Dear Finance Minsiter, Do you have a response?
Easy Way to ban Bitcoins and Crypto Currencies
If Crypto currencies are declared as “Benami Properties” since it is held in anonymous identity, dealing with them becomes illegal ab-initio.
Also ITA 2008 provides certain encryption guidelines which the Currencies violate and hence they are already not legal.
All so called Bitcoin exchanges in India are operating without either RBI or SEBI clearance whether they follow KYC or not. They are illegal operations ab-initio.
Projecting anything as a “Currency” violates the RBI Act and is punishable. Marketing of Bitcoins as a “Currency”, is therefore illegal per se.
We only need the Government to use these existing provisions of law and these Crypto currencies can be eliminated. …
Where there is a will, there is a way. But Government appears to be only trying to find a way out for the criminals rather than punish them in the interest of the nation. Kindly prove me wrong.
Our fight against Bitcoin continues…..
PS: It is surprising that the media and even Mr Subramanya Swamy is silent on Bitcoins. We can understand the reluctance of the media but why Mr Swamy is silent?.. We await his clarification.
Naavi
PS: It is ironic that Google Ads may be serving ads on Bitcoin on this site even as you are reading. I donot endorse those ads.
Naavi
