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Quote from: Atlas on June 05, 2011, 04:18:07 AM

I have never seen a boom and bust that wasn't perpetuated by government involvement. Bitcoin is immune from such things.

Oh Atlas, you really were a stupid little troll. Too bad your suicide was as big a failure as your life.

Tomorrow, the UK & USA decide to make investing in Bitcoin illegal, punished by life imprisonment.

Suddenly, Bitcoin crashes and becomes obsolete. Government wins.

Just because you think it would be unethical to do so, doesn't mean that the Government CAN'T and WON'T do something so dramatic.. I'll expect to see very strict regulation when companies start dealing in BTC more frequently and the governments catch wind that companies aren't paying tax. I expect that companies will be required to publicly disclose all bitcoin addresses they own to the government - and so the government will get involved.

If history has taught us anything is that Prohibition of anything doesn't actually work
Banning something popular has never worked with alcohol, weed, prostitution, piracy or anything else
They only fuel the consumption by driving it underground and putting control of it into the hands of organised criminals
Its better to semi regulate it so they can at least get some tax from the honest users and companies

Exactly this, if they wanted to ban it, they would have banned it until now. They wouldn't let all these investments pour into Bitcoin ecosystem and all these banks that have started looking and researching the blockchain technology.

Even if they decide to ban it tomorrow, they won't do s**t. You can't ban decentralized systems. Look at Internet, bittorrent, etc..