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Title: Maybe the reason why the US government hasn't destroyed Bitcoin when it... Post by: Quantus on January 10, 2013, 11:30:00 AM Maybe the Reason why the US government hasn't destroyed Bitcoin when it could so easily do so, is just a sign that they have found a use for it.
Maybe some one at the CIA said ... "Hey lets use this to send money to our spies and informants." or "Lets use this to sell black market weapons and fight proxy wars." or Maybe... because Bitcoin is so utterly beta that they are afraid if they utterly destroy it some thing even better will pop up in a weeks time. But to think for one second they could't utterly obliterate it if they wanted to is stupid. So why haven't they? China and the US and maybe a few other big nations have the power to blow Bitcoin out of the water with little or no warning. And yet they don't. But the idea that our government is squeamish about bad press is nonsense. For the price of just one jet fighter they could annihilate us and yet they haven't. Why? Title: Re: Maybe the reason why the US government hasn't destroyed Bitcoin when it... Post by: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on January 10, 2013, 11:44:07 AM Because it currently poses no significant threats and it would be absolutely stupid to do so?
Title: Re: Maybe the reason why the US government hasn't destroyed Bitcoin when it... Post by: Luno on January 10, 2013, 12:46:20 PM I've pondered this one for a while too, mainly from the ECB's point of view. From a tinfoil hat perspective bitcoin could well be a creation of the world banks as a potential way of eradicating national debts. From a more realistic perspective something like bitcoin is both inevitable and predictable and allowing it to become established prior to the coming flood of online and mobile payment services could help prevent an awful lot of teething problems and security breaches in these systems as well as preventing any of them from gaining a monopoly on digital payments. Clever point, ECB is clearly interested also in following the lessons learned with Bitcoin. Yesterday there was an announcement of a new central agency for all computer related crime in the EU, including hacking, phishing and credit card fraud. It is to be headded by the Danish computer crime department in the first period. |