Bitcoin crashes and goes away.
The more US government is trying to crackdown on bitcoin related services the more bitcoin will flourish. They know that very well. I wish I could agree with this, but as long as bitcoin stays underground it will be used for silk road and nothing else.
We need to be accepted by the mainstream, by large companies like amazon.com in order to succeed. That is just beginning to happen now but if bitcoin is made "illegal", those companies are going to run, far, far away and bitcoin won't be used by anyone but the techies, the libertarians, and the crazies on this forum
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