Squidface, you have missed the point entirely -- NO AMOUNT OF REGULATION / CONTROL CAN INHIBIT, EVEN IN PRINCIPLE, THE ACTIONS OF A DECENTRALIZED OPERATION.
I would say sorry for yelling but... I'm a metal head. \m/ RIP, Jeff Hanneman.
Thank you sir.
Oh, while I remember - as for the strawman accusation on the previous page; I forget who made it - that only applies if I'm addressing an actual person's argument. I have seen plenty of bear arguments that are completely different and unrelated, and I have seen plenty that indicate that regulation would kill bitcoin due to decreased utility. I am responding to the latter and it is a hypothetical argument that I created to respond to and thus there can be no straw man as I constructed the argument myself. It just happens to mirror arguments that I've seen in the past, and in no way do I claim that all bears make this argument or that any specific bearish posters on these forums make that specific argument
Had an actual bear made an argument that was unrelated, and I mischaracterized it as a "bitcoinz will fail due to regulation" argument and responded that way, the strawman accusation would be legitimate. But, nice try there bucko.