Posted on 01/29/2014 7:36:19 AM PST by Errant
UPDATE (29th January, 13:14 GMT): Read CoinDesks report on yesterdays hearing here. You can watch the full video here.
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(Excerpt) Read more at coindesk.com ...
Law enforcement sounds like they do not like bitcoin, and would have it over regulated.
Feds no likey when they can’t control, regulate, and grift the commerce of commoners.
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Thinking the same thing as you this morning.
Exactly. Change is coming though. Technology can be used for surveillance and control and oppression as well as freeing those dependent on government and monopolies to become self-sufficient and independent in every area (e.g., education, publishing, 3d printing, banking, exchange, medical, and more).
I surely like the portrait of Thomas Jefferson and his words warning about banksters way more than the Tinkerbell “fairy dust” one you posted several days ago.... lol
Every once in awhile, ya just need silly. ;-)
True! lol
Well that was discouraging, however the regulators seem to be smart people, and open minded, but who really knows, they do exist to regulate.
"The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Jefferson
Meanwhile, the real criminals on Wall Street are too big to bust.
So true given the freedom and opportunity entrepreneurs, such as in the next panel will demonstrate, will regulate themselves to ensure long term profitability and growth.
When the gov’t regulates they screw everybody and everything, it is just the base nature which corrupts gov’t such as we have, the worst criminals are in gov’t.
Fred Ehrsam will be on the next panel, he was also on the first panel yesterday, he is the founder of the bitcoin wallet I use, Coinbase.
Just the fines that JPM will pay under Jamie Dimon’s leadership is almost twice the value of all Bitcoins mined to date. I imagine about of fourth of those fines their way into the pockets of whatever organization Acorn as morphed into via some mechanism our illustrious AG ( Eric Holder ) has put in place. O will then have something to smile about besides golf or his next visit with Reggie.
http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/slideshows/6-virtual-currencies-that-went-bust>
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/6d51117e-5806-11e3-a2ed-00144feabdc0.html
Thanks for the links, will check them out.
I did know about e-gold. What makes Bitcoin different is its P2P distributed ledger.
I am so removed from these things... I was even late to even hearing about Bitcoin. I guess technology is passing me by.
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