re: US Treasury issues guidance on virtual currencies, regulatory details unclear

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if bitcoin ever becomes anything close to the "threat" to the USD you want it to be, they will act

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Agreed.

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and it is my opinion that the first and easiest course of action would be to shut down the exchanges.

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Again, agreed.

One of the bitcoin exchange links wiki posted a while back (the exchange is called MtGox or something like that...I forget the exact name now) says on its website home page "we process over 80% of bitcoin transactions." At least it said that back when I clicked on the link. If one exchange processes over 80% of bitcoin transactions, the govt can do great harm to the system if it only shuts down that one exchange.

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I already forced you to concede shutting down the exchanges would eventually choke off the bitcoin economy to the point of it no longer being a threat to the USD. stop being childish and post a real response if you have one.

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Careful, wiki is going to stop replying to you, too, or he will accuse you of parsing his words.

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and your post about russian is fairly absurd

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Thank you.