How To Set Up Your Own Bitcoin/Ethereum IRA

For the past couple of centuries technology empowered the state, put more things under its control. They have ultimate custody of all your financial assets, and custody is nine-tenths of the law. You simply can’t hold $1M in financial assets in a form where ‘The Man’ can grab it if he finds you an enemy of the state, which in many states includes righteous men.
But like so many things the effect is not linear, in that now technology is putting power back in individuals. We can now take classes online, and be evaluated objectively via tests, making Universities less important. We no longer have a handful of news sources, but a spectrum that allows us to choose among vastly different interpretations of the same data. And we have digital currencies, which exploit cryptography innovations aligned with processing power to create ways of assigning credits more efficiently than fiat currency.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 22, 2017.