I like that sentence.
It would be interesting for a change if this could be settled somehow without conventional government involvement.
Somebody in an unrelated post was suggesting a new nation based on Bitcoin.
Is this not an opportunity to take responsibility into our own hands?
How - exactly - are you going to persuade MtGox to unfreeze Bitcoinica's account? They've already said they won't do so until the legal issues are resolved.
I'm not too familiar with the details in this case. But "solving legal issues" doesn't equal "government intervention".
Government intervention could possibly fuck things up even more as they are probably the most ignorant party in all this (both technologically and philosophically).
Nobody seems to think about what tricky situation Zhou Tong may really be in. Perhaps the underworld has been putting pressure on him right from the start.
I forget which country exactly he's from, but maybe the legal punishment he faces when convicted by a conventional court are draconian and the concessions he makes to his customers, the community and his shadowy associates is the best he can do.
Play it cool, folks!
When stupid people argue, it's the judge that wins.