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That in itself is on purpose. If you rely on the government to help you live, then the government controls. For example, I am a US Army Veteran (don’t thank me for my service). I get a significant amount of money from the US government on a monthly basis. There are certain hoops I have to jump through to maintain that income, however, I know some of the loopholes since I was also employed by the VA for a time. Currently, if the VA or US government said I had to do something that is reprehensible in order to maintain my benefits, what else could I do other than try and exist without that money. Not a realistic option for most Veterans.\n\n# Prediction 3: Taxes\n\nCryptocurrencies are the greatest financial instrument created, and not for the reason you think. It is the only currency in history that can be complete controlled by the ruling class. The ledger contains all transactions. And while some would have you believe that there is too much data and too many addresses to track, that is just ignorant. A powerful enough computer system could easily turn all that data into information and allow it to be used. This is why no government is really talking about taxing crypto. All transactions are there to be read at anytime in the future. They are not going anywhere. When crypto gets settled, I predict that governments will retroactively tax crypto transactions. I wouldn’t be surprised if governments of the world did the “Swiss bank tactic” played by the US government. Give people the chance to pay taxes on their own first, and then attack those that decided to hold out. \n\n# Prediction 4: Wealth Gap\n\nCrypto was meant to be a currency for the people. Or at least that is what those that were a part of it for the first 10 years say. But now it is a rich man’s tool. When crypto becomes mainstream, those that got in now or earlier that were millionaires, will become billionaires. And those that where billionaires, will become trillionaires. All while the regular people stay at the same income level they were always at. If you think the top 1% has too much money now, just wait. The wealth gap will be atrocious.\n\n# Prediction 5: Crypto Restructuring\n\nBitcoin is a brand. The name of the first digital coin. The most well known of all the cryptocurrencies. Many uninformed people I know think that Bitcoin is the name of digital currency in general and not a specific coin. Because Bitcoin is so recognizable, it will be easy to sell to regular Joe’s and Jane’s. But how will the Joe’s and Jane’s of the world get their hands on Bitcoin when the circulating supply gets smaller and smaller every day because of institutional and millionaire Over the Counter purchases as well as all those Bitcoins that have been lost? Simple. The top holders of Bitcoins will hold their coins until the price of a single Bitcoin is something staggering like $1,000,000, or $10,000,000. Then they will start releasing it back to the Joe’s and Jane’s of the world until it is all held by the lower classes. Then Bitcoin will be forced into a death spiral. It will fail like the 2008 housing market crash and Black Tuesday combined. The only people that will lose anything, and they will lose everything, will be the Joe’s and Jane’s of the world. The top players in the financial markets don’t lose money. History proves that.\n\nIf you don’t hold it, you don’t own it. Everyone should have an exit strategy for when crypto becomes the last and final shackle of financial slavery that the central banks of the world have been working toward for hundreds, if not thousands of years. 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