The problem is this news affects the fence sitters, who'll be turned off. It also gives the regulators an excellent excuse to regulate bitcoin out of existence -- "Look, it's nothing but scammers and suckers."
As a bitcoin convert, *I* am not chomping at the bit to buy right now.
Bitcoin can't be killed by regulators. By design. For starters, it's global. No single country can makes rules for it, and global cooperation is not going to happen. Then there is the fact that it can't be killed. The tech is out there, all they can do is make it illegal which is not going to hurt the price. Which is why they won't do that either.As a bitcoin convert, *I* am not chomping at the bit to buy right now.
+1 Also, Bitcoin can be killed by scammers, thieves and the negative media reporting FUD that goes along with it. We are seeing this to some extent now.
