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A comment on Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf] by jerf on Thursday July 17, 2014 @04:54PM (#8050132)
'That some part of "The Government" thinks they can regulate something that is not theirs is laughable.'

Bwuh? I can not come up with a sensible interpretation of this sentence. And I've tried.

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Re:Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf] by virtue3 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @05:05PM (#8050175)
the government has effectively 0 control over bitcoin. They can control the population in the US (or in this case, NY state) that uses it. But outside of that they can get bent.
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Re:Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf] by gregr401 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @06:35PM (#8050634)
The entire premise is to regulate the financial companies leveraging bitcoin in NY, not the protocol.
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Re:Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf] by murbard2 on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:04AM (#8053395)
s/can/may/
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