What's to stop people from finding freelance work online in secret and to get paid in Bitcoin without the government knowing? It seems like these digital currencies could weaken the stranglehold of state-backed currencies like the US dollar, the Euro, and the Yen. If you did online web design, coding, copy writing, etc., and you used a secret email that you only access via a VPN, how would the government know? And if you were one of these poor, unfortunate souls who is married, how would your wife know? You could do a regular day job, but do online work on the side, always getting paid in Bitcoin. If you built up enough, you could transfer all your earnings to an offshore account in the Cayman Islands and then just go live there. Flip off our whole society and shitty workaholic culture.

Does this seem possible, or is there something I'm missing?