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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by CoryG89 on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:14AM (#15952629)
You go after the exchanges. Don't make BTC illegal. Make it illegal to trade it for fiat currency or vice-versa.
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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by diggan on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:48AM (#15952978)
When forex trading becomes illegal for the regular Joe, those trades just goes out on the street instead. See USD/Peso situation in Argentina for an example.
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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by UncleMeat on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:09PM (#15953161)
Friction matters. Especially for something that relies on a network effect. Banning transactions might not prevent all transactions, but it would prevent many of them.
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