Quote from: mrb on July 29, 2013, 10:07:50 PM

Quote from: dree12 on July 29, 2013, 08:41:02 PM

The Bank of Thailand does not correspond to the Bank of America. It is actually closer in meaning to the Bank of Canada, which is the central bank, owned by the government, and is responsible for monetary policy and payment systems. See wikipedia for more information.

BOT merely provides "suggestions", or "advises" the government. See http://www.bot.or.th/English/AboutBOT/index/Pages/RolesAndResponsibilities.aspx

You made a nice map and you may feel good about using the full palette of colors of your legend, but until the Exchanges Currencies Act of Thailand is updated or superseded by another Act to prohibit Bitcoin, your map is spreading misinformation.

Are you sure about this? I reread the Exchange Control Act, and it seems to authorize the Bank to do what it did. But IANAL, so I may be wrong on this.

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Foreign currency means legal tender in any country other than Thailand including foreign exchange;

After the Minister has entrusted the Bank of Thailand with the execution of this Act, the Governor of the Bank of Thailand shall be empowered to appoint the officers of the Bank to be the Competent Officers under this Act...

Competent Officer means a person appointed for the execution of this Act...

The Minister is empowered to issue Ministerial Regulations controlling, restricting, or prohibiting the execution of all exchange or other operations in which foreign currency is concerned in whatever form and is also empowered to issue Ministerial Regulations as regards the following:
(1) the purchase, sale and loan of foreign currency or gold;
(2) the exportation of currency, bank notes, money orders, securities, foreign currency, or gold;
(3) the transfer of securities out of Thailand;
(4) the drawing or negotiation of bills of exchange or promissory notes, the transfer of securities, or the acknowledgement of any debt so that a right to receive payment in Thailand is created or transferred as consideration:
(a) for receiving a payment or acquiring property outside Thailand
(b) for a right to receive a payment or to acquire property outside...

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the Ministerial Regulations, Notifications, or Directions issued under this Act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Baht 20,000 or to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both.