Apparently most adults never emotionally mature beyond the grade school level, or at least enough of them don't that the feds can count on somebody complaining about the people exchanging BTC for USD in a Starbucks to give them an excuse to take action.
http://contrariancompliance.com/2014/09/19/us-money-transmission-laws-are-worthless-and-unconstitutional/so far the only company subjected to it appears to have been mine. The vast majority of my competitors operate today without a license in any state, or operated for years without them until I sued them in federal court.
Well, this makes sense.
It's the basic principle of justice, actually.
Not sure how it is related to the posts you quoted, though.