Quote from: EdenHazard on April 09, 2018, 06:02:48 PM

The government don't like bitcoin just have a decentralized system, they will use a various way to make bitcoin die. If they have authority for change a system bitcoin and they have authority to intervention every society who will make a transaction maybe now bitcoin will accepted by every country. And not impossible bitcoin will get national credit, because they can control everyone who make a credit.

But for now bitcoin still have a decentralized system, there is no everyone can able to change bitcoin system. Before they announced to have regulation ban bitcoin they will consider affect bitcoin to economic country, they will inspect before and see good and bad if they ban or accept bitcoin. So, who know? I will know it will not happen.

I totally agree with you. This cannot happen. Government cannot support bitcoin as well as kill bitcoin even if they try. This happen for several reasons.

Bitcoin is a famously dececentralized cryptocurrency, a system of storing value, and a somewhat less-effective transaction medium. It allows near-instantaneous transfers all over the world without a middle man or regulatory body giving it the go-ahead. Fans of cryptocurrency fear government regulation could ruin it, but they shouldnt be concerned. Any attempt control bitcoin simply wont work.

Beyond the difficulties presented by the decentralization of bitcoin itself, governments and regulatory bodies have shown they lack understanding of technological topics, and bitcoin is one of the most complex. As governments struggle to ban technologies like Tor and encryption, it seems impossible to imagine them gaining the ability to truly impact bitcoin and its alt-coin contemporaries in a way that could impede its progress.

- Historical precedent

The oversight jitters are understandable. There have been some attempts at regulation over the years, and now that bitcoins value has spiked to unprecedented new heights, there is greater discussion than ever from governments around the world. Perhaps its no wonder that half of those surveyed in a recent report of bitcoin owners claimed they didnt want any regulation of cryptocurrency in the coming years.\

In December 2013, the Chinese government banned financial institutions from using bitcoin, causing a downturn in the cryptocurrencys value that would set a precedent for its worth over the coming years. Less than a year later, in April 2014, several Chinese bitcoin exchanges had their bank accounts closed. That spurred concern that government oversight limiting access to fiat currency (traditional, real world currency) could be lead a wave of future regulations to curtail bitcoins growth. Yet loopholes in the crackdown meant many exchanges stayed in business, and bitcoins price rose some 25 percent in the 10 days that followed.

The U.S. has made localized attempts to regulate specific aspects of bitcoin. New York State requires a BitLicense for bitcoin related businesses, with specific rules for employee vetting and identification. Just last month, the IRS won a landmark ruling to gain access to information about 14,000 historic Coinbase accounts, in an attempt to gather back taxes from owners.

While some of those instances are more concerning than others, none of it has stopped bitcoins growth. That reveals the flaws of any future attempts to crack down on bitcoins use.

- Bitcoins intrinsic impossible oversight

There are several key components to bitcoin, and its fellow cryptocurrencies, which make them successful as methods of transaction, and stores of value. Theyre easy to transfer, no middle-man is required, and they cant be linked to owners who dont want to be identified. These are all big problems for any government wanting to have a greater say in how they operate.

Bitcoin is not linked to any territory or financial institution. There are tens of popular exchanges, and even if there werent, all you need are wallets and a network connection to be able to conduct bitcoin transactions. The blockchain its built upon does not require any one institution to operate it, and indeed is the complete antithesis of such an idea, operating as a public ledger rather than a private one.

Without that central location to shut down, any meaningful crackdown would have to be a global endeavor. Even if a country was to somehow prevent bitcoin transactions from taking place within their borders, a simple VPN or Proxy system would let users operate internationally with little issue.

If governments could effectively stop a peer to peer network, they wouldve shut down the illegal practices of torrent websites over a decade ago. Even the success of the hydra-like torrent sites isnt a perfect analogy for bitcoin, though, because cryptocurrenys legal status is far easy to debate.

A fairer comparison would be the so-called dark web. Although individual sites, servers and people involved with various activities on there may occasionally be arrested for illegal activities, it would be ridiculous to think any government could regulate the entire network. Trying to ban bitcoin or regulate it in a manner that allows actual oversight would be much the same. Its impossible on a technical level.

Even tracking individual people who own specific wallets is difficult. While the public blockchain might allow governments or law enforcement to track down certain bitcoins, tying them to a real-world person is very difficult. An owner can hide his or her identity with a VPN, Tor, or even physically move a wallet into cold storage (offline) form, making it invisible to the world.

Is there any wonder that bitcoin is being used for money laundering, ransomware and other organized crime tactics? Take the additional step to throw your bitcoins through a tumbler that jumbles up your bitcoins with many others, and then spits them out into another wallet not linked with the original, and the trail quickly goes cold.