The obvious question now: what are LR users going to transact with instead?
And how many people had money sitting on LR. Seems like a fairly big deal. Without Dwolla, I'd imagine LR was a fairly big chunk of Gox deposits. Surprised no one is talking about this, they were down all day Friday. Maybe not that many people used LR.
Wow this is HUGE big shitz, LR is a gigantic washing machine with millions transiting, many exchange business that deals with LR also do bitcoin, like Aurumxchange. Expect big Losses due to this shutdown for whole digital currency community.
Well BTC is Monopoly now , heck i'm turning ubber bull, i'm holding btc for long, to hell with short term trading.
Very sad news, USA just can't stay out of anything can they? But at the same time, this is probably quite bullish for bitcoin. LR was the new e-gold, every HYIP, autosurf and similar business was using LR...It was quite massive, tons of people where using it. Now those people can go to perfect money, hdmoney etc, but the same thing could happen there... Perhaps people will start looking for real alternatives that can't be shutdown, otherwise this trend will continue. Money laundering = transfering money outside of the banking system. Such BS charges.
edit: just checked a few of those forums, there is desperation... half of all topics on first page was about liberty reserve.