Just had thought, thought I would share it with you guys for a chuckle...
Why doesn't Putin tell Visa + Mastercard to p*** off and just use bitcoin???
I wonder if someone has suggested it to him
not going to happen: bitcoin belongs to NSA.
I have thought of that. It would be funny if it would turn out that the ASIC miners actually do decryption? work for the NSA. And the biggest exchanges are also with bogus back-stories, and are actually controlled by The Man. That it's market and hype is all one big charade, created to actually be some kind of an widely distributed cyber-weapon.