Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin? 490
New submitter F9rDT3ZE writes "Salon writer Andrew Leonard examines the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) first 'guidance' regarding 'de-centralized virtual currencies,' noting that Bitcoin's supporters call it a 'currency of resistance,' while others suggest that 'the more popular Bitcoin gets, whether as a symbol of resistance or a perceived safe haven in financially troubled times, the more government attention it will inevitably draw, and the more inexorably it will be sucked into existing regulatory structures.'"
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
If only we could put a tax on apostrophe's.
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
apostrophe's what?
Re:bitcoin's value is for it's utopian idealizatio (Score:5, Funny)
when you can only process opposition to your worldview in simpleminded cartoon stereotypes, you might have a problem
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:4, Funny)
You would'nt bel'ieve how many t'imes Iv'e seen it use'd impro'perly.
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:2, Funny)
When apostrophes are outlawed, only outlaw's will have apostrophes.
ftfy
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
Tolkein? Is that you?
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
M'or'e lik'e L'ov'e'craf't, Im' th'inki'ng.
Posted from ph'nglui mglw'nafh.
Re:Bitcoin Legitimacy (Score:3, Funny)
The thing about the assumption that the state "cannot" control something, is that it is almost always entirely wrong. This discovery is almost always accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth.
On the other hand, the assumption that the state "can" control something is also almost always entirely wrong. This discovery is also almost always accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
lol its sad that i get this.
*facepalm*
Re:That's the price you pay (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like someone couldn't afford the apostrophe tax.