Quote from: Die_empty on Today at 04:19:30 PM

Quote from: uchegod-21 on Today at 03:44:38 PM

This is not a difficult thing to do, but the government's are only not interested in this because they cannot control it the way they would control the issuing, printing and regulating of fiat currencies. Whether bitcoin is made a legal tender or not, I don't think it is restricting anyone from making payments with bitcoin as long as both parties involved in the transaction have mutual understanding.

Countries now are becoming more bitcoin friendly, you can do what you want freely with like minds, but do not expect to hear from the government anytime soon that they are going to enact a law enforcing bitcoin on everyone as a means of payment.

This should not bother us much, even the Bitcoin community are populated with Bitcoin investors, traders and business people, not genuine people who want to do everyday payments with bitcoin.

An observation of the case of El Salvador and Central African Republic shows that making Bitcoin a legal tender is not as easy as some of us thought.

For citizens to embrace Bitcoin there should be intensive awareness programs aimed at enlightening the people. The government should also ensure that all the necessary infrastructure that will make Bitcoin transactions successful are in place. CAR couldn't achieve these first two steps.

There are also other external influence from powerful nations and organisation. Some of these institutions are anti-Bitcoin and will want to frustrate the project. This was the case of El Salvador when IMF forced it to review it's Bitcoin policy.

Yea, you have indeed noted the important things that must be made available which I have obviously missed. The truth is, the major reason some of these governments and these institutions are trying hard to frustrate Bitcoin and countries who would adopt it is because they are not directly benefiting from it through direct control. Also, they also believe that some data would be hidden from them since bitcoin transactions are anonymous. Now they stand the chance of losing revenue they can't trace and dealing with a currency which they sense is a threat to fiat.

If not for these, it would take them nothing to approve the use of bitcoin as a legal tender, especially on seeing the growing adoption among people and institutional investors.