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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: bitcoin: unregulate-able?
by
tvbcof
on 27/03/2013, 20:31:21 UTC
Something I see as more likely than not eventually.  Probably taking the form of blocking all encrypted traffic for which no usable back-door can be readily verified.

That will work until some ingenious hacker finds a way to get into the back door or some corrupt government employee sells all the private keys to the Russian Mafia, and then you can say goodbye to e-commerce, full stop.

It's a stupid idea even for a government.

It's certainly not a new idea.  Thankfully it has been rejected thus far (thanks in large part to the efforts of people like Hal Finney) but desperate times require desperate measures, as they say.