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Topic
Board Politics & Society
Re: Swiss parliamentary postulate: Bitcoin is a currency
by
Hermel
on 09/12/2013, 19:54:51 UTC
... the simplest way to answer them would be to clarify that Bitcoins should be treated like other foreign currencies. ... This not only paves the way for Bitcoin businesses and financial services in Switzerland, it is also a great precedent for other countries that look into how Bitcoin should be handled from a regulatory perspective.
Watch out.

This is an excellent question and has also been raised on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876304