Quote from: bovcan on January 02, 2014, 03:18:08 AM

Yes exactly...China and India have already both come down hard on BTC. Those are the two most populous countries on the earth and something like 2.8 billion people. So next is #3 to come down hard on it and that is the USA.

China and India have exchange controls. The US doesn't. If you want to do a wire transfer of a few thousand, or a few million if you've got it, out of the US, the US doesn't care. It gets reported to FinCen, but they won't stop you. Nobody reports any problems wire transferring money to Mt. Gox. (The fact that all of Mt. Gox's "banking troubles" are on the outbound side is a strong indication that they're crooked or broke.)

Bitcoin's problems come mostly from the slimeballs associated with Bitcoin businesses. Over half of the Bitcoin exchanges have gone bust, most of the "online wallet" businesses went bust, and they usually kept the customers' money. Anonymous remote irrevocable money transfer is the con man's dream.