Quote from: og kush420 on August 28, 2013, 06:35:56 PM

Quote from: tgerring on August 28, 2013, 01:39:00 PM

Quote from: Polvos on August 28, 2013, 06:18:51 AM

We, the bitcoin users, don't need the bitcoin foundation to represent us. We have no faces. If any user, US government included, has any problem using Bitcoin, we can help him in the bitcointalk forum. But nearly all the questions a government could have about Bitcoin are very well explained in satoshi's paper and the source code. The only words the foundation had to say in that meeting: read the paper and the code as all of we did, it's all explained there.

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska described the internet as "a series of tubes"... in 2006! What makes you think any government is going to read source code to understand a technology?

It's time to pull our collective heads out of the ground and recognize that doing nothing is the worst possible approach. If we (as a community) don't communicate with US government officials, Bitcoin will remain over-regulated, preventing legitimate businesses from springing up.

You can want "no regulation" as much as you want, but it's not going to happen with Bitcoin any time soon. Accept it.

well this is wrong on many levels, every single thing you said is irrelevant or clearly wrong

-there is no bitcoin regulation now... yeah it wont happen soon, it is already the reality...

-he didnt say doing nothing... what he is saying is that we should ALL be doing something, not a few rich corrupt bitcoin business owners behind closed doors

-yeah, because the government agencies funded with BILLIONS cannot understand bitcoin, yet a bunch of young adults on an internet forum can, i cant even believe your serious with that one

I'm not sure if you're being facetious or naive.

Either way, troll harder.