Quote from: Coinseeker on May 30, 2013, 02:57:58 PM

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Quote from: high110 on May 29, 2013, 07:18:53 PM

All i have to say is Liberty Reserve...same fate for Ripple.

Completely different situation.

Opencoin operates in the US under US law.

Opencoin is in the US and under US law, thus it will be even easier for the US to shut them down than it was for LR. Look at how easy it is to open an anonymous ripple account: they don't even ask you for a name and email address.

As OpenCoin has stated, even if that would happen today before the source code was released, they would just at that moment, release it. Wouldn't matter what happens to OpenCoin after that, as it relates to the Ripple network.

I'm skeptical that that is true -- mostly because I think they might absorb some legal liability from knowingly releasing something the US government has told them not to. However, I'm not an attorney and don't know this for certain. Having said that, I wouldn't wish that kind of problem on anyone...