On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:

It is an argument that the US govt already has the power to define the creation of BC as a crime

That would be contingent upon whether or not anybody above a particular pay grade has ever heard of it, understands it, or has someone tell them that it could be a bad thing. There isn't a unified front on Bitcoin in government right now; probably a few geeks they have as contractors know of it but they're not talking about it on site. That said, cryptocurrency's been tried in the past, and it was the lack of chargebacks (which banks make obscene amounts off of) rather than the legality which killed it. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE