Quote from: Rampion on May 28, 2013, 03:29:26 PM

Quote from: WackyWilly on May 28, 2013, 07:49:42 AM

that this OKPay withdrawal is just another part of the tactical manouevres undertaken by Government institutions to crack down on Bitcoin.

You simply do not "crack down" on Bitcoin.

It's about time financial institutions and their sockpuppets (the Governments) grow up some balls and officially outlaw Bitcoin, so they can face the harsh reality: Bitcoin is resilient to bans and regulation by design.

Anyhow I think they know it, so they won't make us the favour to ban Bitcoin - they know they would have lost the battle from the very beginning, so they will try to play their cards in a different way.

Governments are big, with vast and sprawling org charts full of people trying to do things in the interest of that government.
There are a lot of branches on those org charts looking at this stuff with more than a passing interest. Bitcoin can serve their interests pretty well in so far as its logging ability being useful for tracking transactions. Use of anonymity addons can be indicative of intent, which is a prong in most criminal prosecutions.

Our tree will be pruned of bad fruit, and even of good fruit infected with a few bad worms, but it has good roots. It will grow and adapt.