But it doesn't mean that somebody (Sirius) can't make one.
You don't seem to get that people can be free grown ups and that the world is not going to crumble apart.
If there is one-two threads, that is not a problem. But when such threads start showing up in hundereds, this may change.
No, it will simply become a board of 4chan.
It's like explaining "don't touch the kettle, you will get burned" to the children, OMG...
Except for you're not daddy, now please GTFO and take your FUD and morals with you.
Of course it has a market in people trading illegal stuff. But not on this forum.
I didn't know you owned it.
If you trade illegals on this forum, it's like you're shouting around : "Hey, bitcoin was created for paying whores, buying drugs, illegal arms and generally fucking the government"
Implying that fucking the government is a bad thing...
Bitcoin is the most free currency that has ever circulated, if governments have a problem with freedom it's not bitcoins problem. Just as your little fears are not the mods problem.
Governments cannot shut it down. But they can hold mainstream adoption by making it illegal.
And then, you are not going to pay for groceries with Bitcoin. Ever.
You obviously fail to understand that legality of bitcoin is irrelevant to its use as a currency.
If a government makes bitcoin illegal, it will shed massive light on it, and lead to massive adoption, and in turn expose the contradictions of said interdiction.