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More news from Italy. This is basically an a nice primer on all that is bitcoin. It came out on the 20'th of June after the hearings from the House of Representatives in Italy. It sounds like they will be installing a Robocoin ATM in Rome by the end of June. One thing I do remember from their hearings is that one of the speakers said that they missed out on the early adoption of the internet, and they don't want to repeat that mistake with bitcoin. This is a good start I guess.

One thing to note here is that there is yet another event that converges on the 26'th. It sounds like Robocoin will be making a presentation and there will be discussion on how to regulate their ATM's.

Splendid stuff. . . the tsunami is building, and at a fair old rate.

Only fools try to stand in the way of a tsunami.

Lets get the italian maffia in bitcoin Cheesy

Much better than those suitcases of filthy FIAT.

For the moment - methinks they would prefer the suitcases of Fiat - easy to play games with, plus they are not fans of change not unless they control it.

Ya, it will be interesting to see how the mafia will influence all of this.

Probably the same way they influenced e-mail adoption.... not a whole lot, but then I guess maybe some money laundering but they would probably use a different crypto than BTC- one of the 'darker' coins, maybe some fraud and extortion scams, some general racketeering, and possible even BTC loan sharks- or protection money " Where is this months BTC ? transfer the fukin' crypto paisan or maybe in the future you don't walk so good capish? y'fukin Jabroni " so basically business as usual. Cheesy

If anything once they get their heads around it they will be no doubt exercising their control and influence over the local politicians to enable them to get away with blue bloody murder, then in Italy where do the banks, and politicians and police and mafia begin and end ? they see to all role into one non? Cheesy

Ha - I am just foolin' but yes I guess it will be interesting to see how organized crime comes into play.

EDIT - actually I am struggling to think of a place anywhere now where the banks, and politicians/government and police and mafia/ organised crime do not at some point roll into one.. think it is just more obvious in Italy than many other places.

I heard that there has been a lot of crackdown on the mafia in recent years, but because of it's highly distributed nature it will likely prove impossible to stamp out completely.