Quote from: camem on July 29, 2013, 11:00:01 PM

surely UK counts as legal, what with HMRC telling you how to deal with tax etc

http://www.coindesk.com/hmrc-uk-bitcoin-exchanges-dont-have-to-register-under-money-laundering-regulations/

http://stirling-westrup-tt.blogspot.com/2011/06/tt-ns-2815-future-of-money-series.html

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145972.msg1827953#msg1827953

Thank you, added.

Quote from: casascius on July 29, 2013, 11:07:55 PM

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

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about using the full palette of colors of your legend, but until the Exchanges Currencies Act of Thailand is updated or superseded by another Act to prohibit Bitcoin, your map is spreading misinformation.

+1

It's not illegal until we hear it first hand from an authoritative source of the law.

Can you review this? My reading seems to suggest that the bank does indeed have the power to enact these regulations. However, I am terrible at reading legalese. I have heard two versions of the story: the Bank is only advisory and the Minister must carry out the regulation, or the Bank is entrusted by the Minister to carry out regulation.