Bitcoin has been on my suspect list considering I expect the economy to eventually go fully digital or cashless. Its been on many Christians radar for a while in relation to the mark of the beast. If the beast is to coerce the world into taking his mark by economic means, then I really don't see how this could ever be possible unless the medium of exchange is put in a global database and made entirely cashless. It will be easier to prohibit anyone from buying or selling if you can deny them access to their own account. Will such a system end up being bitcoin? Perhaps, but I still think we are a ways away from seeing a totally cashless economic system.
Well this may be the start of something, but at the moment, Bitcoin..... it's too expensive, it's not ideal, not many people will accept bitcoin at the shops, if bitcoin crashes, will it pick itself back up? We don't know, because a lot of people will see it as a massive failure if bitcoin crashes, and a quite a number of investors could lose thousands and thousands, so then bitcoin loses it's trust from many people. And I'm someone who doesn't wish for the economy to go cashless, I'm a good saver, I don't have a credit card, but you see how much people have trouble with credit cards already, could you imagine how much more problems other people can have if the economy goes cashless?
But if the world wants a cashless economy then that's sad, because there's no real value in a number on a computer screen, at the moment it sounds crazy, it's just a number, there would probably a big increase in frauds, because the value of digital currency basically is what number is typed there, it's just a number on a screen, and if you got quite a bit of know how around the net, once you get past all security, making a buck would be as easier than ever, say Jack has 100 bitcoin, he just needs to add in a 0 to make it 1000 bitcoin, of course they would be toughening up the security all the time though, to avoid cases like that, but..........., you never know, coding is becoming a big thing at schools, kids are learning a lot more than ever on how to make stuff digitally from scratch, and not everyone of them is going to use their skills for the right thing, maybe 1 out of 1000 may end using their coding skills doing the wrong thing, maybe less, maybe more.
But that's just a guess on what a cashless world could look like, wait 10 - 30 years down the track and see what happens.
If some anti-christ beast rises up in any of our lifetimes haha, will we see Christians go back to barter system? Horses and buggys? Camel trains & donkeys? Yee yee, well it could be some fun, I would quite like that actually, haha. Or maybe there will be a heap of Christian car, bike, atv, boat manufacturers and we can have a transportable factory, that can be moved around like the tabernacle. Or who knows what God will do, maybe in those days, God will say, oi you pick up that rock and throw it in the water, and it turns into a boat, or pick up that stick and strike the ground with it and it will turn into a horse or an ATV or bike. Ah well there's the fun side of things.
