Quote from: lemonginger on June 06, 2011, 09:44:03 PM

If gov't really wants to capitalize on this, then will regulate and tax drugs and make it EASIER to buy drugs with your credit card at your local corner store much the way itunes has capitalized on music even in the realm of easy digital piracy.

But they won't - nor do I think they have the initiative or the savvy to incorporate the tremendously beneficial changes that Bitcoins could usher in for this country, when it would be so much easier just to attack the people involved. I consider Bitcoins and the United States too mutually incompatible in terms of ideologies to function together without compromises on both sides. For this reason, Bitcoins presence here, in one of the world's largest economies, is ultimately doomed.

To those of you who believe that they won't find a way to stop us here, you sorely underestimate the dogged, blind ruthlessness that this country brings to bear when enforcing its ideologies. Look at our jails, stuffed to capacity with good natured minor marijuana offenders if you need any evidence of this fanaticism. As a citizen of the united states, I find all of this deeply disappointing - Bitcoins will thrive elsewhere, but I will not be able to partake in the movement for much longer without extensive risk to myself.

And you black marketeers, while you aren't the ultimate reason for Bitcoin's eventual local failure, you have the honor of being the first straw man they've set ablaze in what is - for now - strictly a PR war.

And anisoptera? Spark up another doobie. I've invented a new name for your kind on these boards - I'm calling you "Roadies" from here on out.