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Re:Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin by drcode on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:16PM (#7308474)
Actually, we sorta tried this between 1850 and 1920, which is pretty much the highest GDP growth time period in the history of the US.
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Re:Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin by imgabe on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:30PM (#7308587)
Which also included a financial crisis and recession roughly every 10 years and ended with the Great Depression. How much faster would the economy have grown if it hadn't been plunged into recession once a decade?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis#History

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Re:Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin by drcode on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:16PM (#7309317)
Growth might have been faster or slower, who can say.
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