The Separation Of State And Economics

By HanseCoin on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

By Dr. Chris Kacher of Hanse Digital Access on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

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(Original article on www.selfishinvesting.com)

Diminishing Financial Freedom

In light of the predictable moves in the direction of interest rates given the struggling global economy, a deeper discussion is warranted. We have freedom of communication but lack freedom of value exchange. Given the number of chat and social platforms in existence today, we have more freedom to communicate than ever before while keeping in mind that most any platform can be hacked. But even with exponential rates of growth in some areas, we still lack the freedom to transfer value, ie, fiat. I wrote a brief article on the separation of state and economics here: https://www.virtueofselfishinvesting.com/reports/view/crypto-report-separation-of-church-state-what-about-separation-of-money-state-bitcoins-killer-app.

Humanity was able to see the logic behind keeping government out of religion, thus the separation of church and state was born. We may be on the brink of something massive in terms of greatly reducing the government’s control over financial affairs. Granted, this requires many mental dots one must connect to see how this could even be possible. But just because something has never happened before, and just because governments -totalitarian, democratic, and every form of government in between- have always controlled money flow does not mean things cannot change in a revolutionary way. If you look at the human timeline, we are experiencing a parabolic rise in technology. This technology brings far greater freedoms than anyone could have imagined a few hundred years ago let alone 50 years ago. And the parabolic rise just gets steeper the further along the timeline we move. In other words, the future looks bright. The big change will be here before we know it.

Advantage: S-Curve

Most underestimate exponential S-curve technologies simply because they start small then get big fast. If you double a number, it’s unnoticeable the first several times it doubles, but by the time you’ve doubled it at least 15–20 times, it’s significant and by the 30th double, it’s massive. Blockchain, AI, VR, and other such game-changing technologies all trace exponential growth curves.

Blockchain is the first technology in the history of humanity that will help decentralize human beings. An article on why ants are the most successful species: they are decentralized and blockchain is the first tech of its kind that will help bring humanity into a more decentralized form. Many cooperating creates superior results — none of us is as smart as all of us. From decentralized oracles to decentralized file sharing to decentralized CPU sharing, the limits are one’s imagination.

Decentralized Tech

Examples abound. A good friend of mine who is the CEO of rLoop won Elon Musk’s competition by building an army of decentralized engineers around the planet. These engineers were not even paid though going forward, they will be compensated. They are building structures that triumph over existing ones. Global, crowdsourced engineering.

But that they were willing to do the work without payment is equivalent to the exponential growth of Wikipedia. These are unpaid volunteers who contribute to the encyclopedia. Sure, it has its growing pains but now is one of the most up-to-date platforms of knowledge on the internet. That said, it’s not perfect and trench warfare wiki ‘gangs’ can end up manipulating entries for unknown purposes, but it is certainly better than the ‘old school’ ways.

One of the oldest examples of decentralization is peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing which remains untouchable by governments despite their vain attempts to quash it since the days of Napster in the mid-1990s. For every Pirates Bay that is ended, 10 new ones come online.

Banning Bitcoin

The same will be true of bitcoin. China has tried in vain to ban various aspects of bitcoin technology from trading it to mining it. Chinese investors just move their bitcoin to exchange outside of China. They have also used bitcoin to move big money outside of China, far exceeding the $50,000 equivalent in yuan maximum allowed by the Chinese government. When they made ICOs illegal in China, companies just moved to Hong Kong or the equivalent.

The recent rise in the price of bitcoin from the low $3000s to roughly $9000 before breaking its upside parabolic move is due in part to the trade war between the U.S. and China. It is feared that Chinese companies will suffer weakening profitability which could force Beijing to depreciate the Chinese yuan to absorb the shock of U.S. tariffs. Guo Shuqing, China’s top banking regulator warned against short-selling the yuan saying short sellers would “inevitably suffer a huge loss.” Famed and legendary investor Jim Rogers said he typically shorts the currency in question in such situations. He says that proclamations by government officials and the like are meaningless.

Thus a number of Chinese may be moving some of their capital from the yuan into offshore bitcoin platforms which could be partially responsible for bitcoin moving well above its moving averages so early in its new bull phase as shown below:

India is considering prison terms for anyone caught with bitcoin and potentially other forms of cryptocurrencies. The Venezuelan government has already done this. But such draconian measures will hamper growth while other more forward thinking countries embrace the technology to gain the advantage.

TLDR: Governments can try to ban new tech all they want, but governments are always the slow animal in humanity’s ‘herd’ so there will always be ways to override government control and corruption. In Venezuela, millions of families have used bitcoin to move their depreciating savings into bitcoin then into a stable fiat currency. Dash which is a privacy coin is the override to bitcoin being illegal in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government remains mostly clueless about this.

SEC vs. Blockchain

Over in the U.S., the renowned venture capital genius Fed Wilson among others has tweeted that should the SEC take too heavy-handed an approach to regulations concerning blockchain, companies will simply move out of the U.S. This already happened when the state of New York passed the onerous Bit License requirement a few years back. Compliance costs were so steep that most smaller companies had to move outside of New York, with most moving out of the U.S.

Fiat’s Days Numbered?

But while the dollar, euro, and pound remain the pillars of stability when it comes to currencies, the planet is mired in record levels of debt with interest rates in many countries at all-time lows. What does this say about fiat which is backed by the full faith and credit of the underlying government? As QE-Infinity continues with no end in sight, a massive monetary shift is already starting to occur.

While the Fed hiked rates several times by 25 basis points each time over the last few years, rates in the U.S. still remained near historical lows since they started from historically low levels. Now with the world teetering on recession, the Fed is faced with having to undo these mini rate hikes. Indeed, the ability of central banks to spur economic growth through monetary policy has diminished considerably over the last few debt cycles. Note in the graph below how the yield on the 10 years has been on a downtrend since it peaked in the early 1980s. Also, note the slight uptrend in rates over the last few years as the Fed became increasingly hawkish by hiking rates.

When the Fed attempted to get even more hawkish in the later part of 2018 with little end in sight to their bank balance reductions, major stock markets in the U.S. finally gave up the ghost by collapsing by roughly -20% in December 2018. It was the first Christmas crash in U.S. stock market history. Fed Chairperson Powell then was forced to make the proclamation that he would halt balance sheet reductions and do what it takes to keep the bull market alive.

That was on December 15 and marked the low of the correction which spurred a sharp uptrend up until recently.

Enter The Trade Wars

Since then, the trade wars together with the slowing global economy have taken their toll sending U.S. markets below their respective 200-day moving averages, but just for an instant. President Donald Trump plays the Fed like a fiddle, knowing he can maintain a tough stance on trade as the Fed will simply monetize more debt should conditions deteriorate. Indeed, the Fed’s Powell gave the nod to multiple rate reductions if necessary in the coming months.

In any event, when the next recession hits, the deflationary forces of automation and technology that continue to accelerate, part of the 6 D’s of Peter Diamandis, will replace a growing number of jobs which in turn will further reduce consumer demand. In other words, the next recession will likely be one for the history books though exponential growth technologies will be the counterbalance thus the parabolic rise will continue on relentlessly.

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