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Re:GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society by tsotha on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:42PM (#10262690)
>Bitcoin and others will never succeed because they are too friendly towards illicit behaviour.

I doubt various governments can do a whole lot about it, which means it's likely to succeed eventually.

Re:GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society by davidgerard on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @03:40AM (#10263779)
I'd like you to define "succeed" and, indeed, "it", so that you're making a testable claim here. Do you mean the present Bitcoin blockchain, or something else?