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Re:US financial regulator: We could regulate Bitcoin “if we ... by craigyk on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:24PM (#5668954)
As long as people need to use USD for most purchases, then yes. As long as businesses are required to keep track of and report their earnings, then yes.

As long as the government could easily afford enough hardware to takeover the blockchain, then yes.

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Re:US financial regulator: We could regulate Bitcoin “if we ... by falcolas on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @01:41PM (#5669515)
Taking up the sarcasm cape:

It explains the development of all the NSA datacenters lately - they want in on bitcoin mining!

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