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Title: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: Borbolon on January 06, 2014, 12:58:47 PM Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) will not allow the installation of Bitcoin ATMs in the country because it believes Bitcoins are not a currency and should therefore not be accepted by individuals or banks as payment, said FSC chairman Tseng Ming-chung. Tseng Ming-chung’s statement was reported yesterday by the Central News Agency (link via Google Translate), Taiwan’s state-run news service.
More: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/05/taiwans-government-says-no-to-bitcoin-atms/ (http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/05/taiwans-government-says-no-to-bitcoin-atms/) Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: Borbolon on January 06, 2014, 01:00:32 PM I've just seen this has already been published but I cannot delete it, sorry. :-[
This is the previous thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401022.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401022.0) Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: bitcoinpsftp on January 06, 2014, 01:11:29 PM Wow that's pretty sick. I'd have thought that Taiwan would be very open to ideas like bitcoin.
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: bitrider on January 06, 2014, 01:16:38 PM interesting
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 01:24:46 PM Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) will not allow the installation of Bitcoin ATMs in the country because it believes Bitcoins are not a currency and should therefore not be accepted by individuals or banks as payment, said FSC chairman Tseng Ming-chung. Tseng Ming-chung’s statement was reported yesterday by the Central News Agency (link via Google Translate), Taiwan’s state-run news service. More: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/05/taiwans-government-says-no-to-bitcoin-atms/ (http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/05/taiwans-government-says-no-to-bitcoin-atms/) Bastards. What reasoning do they have for believing it's not a currency? Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: guybrushthreepwood on January 06, 2014, 02:25:28 PM If people are using it then it's a currency. They gonna ban vending machines if people start using cans of coke as currency? lol
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: Kungfucheez on January 06, 2014, 03:36:44 PM Am I supposed to care about Taiwan?
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 03:43:21 PM Am I supposed to care about Taiwan? Well do you care about Bitcoin? We should be glad to see it accepted in more and more places and displeased when it's restricted. Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: BitcoinBarrel on January 06, 2014, 04:23:32 PM Should probably ban Arcades too because tickets and prizes are not currency, neither are video games.
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: BitCoinNutJob on January 06, 2014, 04:35:28 PM the east are being tricky Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: User_513 on January 06, 2014, 04:38:15 PM What a shocker, a government says that a currency that is superior (BTC) to it's own fiat junk isn't to be used as 'money'.
Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: gamybtc on January 06, 2014, 04:43:40 PM Should probably ban Arcades too because tickets and prizes are not currency, neither are video games. You are right. These people discourage the new systems always. They should ban tickets, prizes, and eitems are not currency. Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: hilariousandco on January 06, 2014, 04:50:48 PM Should probably ban Arcades too because tickets and prizes are not currency, neither are video games. This is exactly my thinking. If people are using something as currency then who are the governments to tell us it's not. Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: Kungfucheez on January 06, 2014, 09:57:06 PM Am I supposed to care about Taiwan? Well do you care about Bitcoin? We should be glad to see it accepted in more and more places and displeased when it's restricted. Why does that matter to me? Taiwan could ban cars for all I care, doesn't effect me any. Only people it would effect are the Taiwanese, and I doubt many of them care. Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: BawsyBoss on January 06, 2014, 10:15:58 PM Am I supposed to care about Taiwan? Well do you care about Bitcoin? We should be glad to see it accepted in more and more places and displeased when it's restricted. Why does that matter to me? Taiwan could ban cars for all I care, doesn't effect me any. Only people it would effect are the Taiwanese, and I doubt many of them care. Title: Re: Taiwan’s Government Says No To Bitcoin ATMs Post by: Kungfucheez on January 06, 2014, 10:27:19 PM Am I supposed to care about Taiwan? Well do you care about Bitcoin? We should be glad to see it accepted in more and more places and displeased when it's restricted. Why does that matter to me? Taiwan could ban cars for all I care, doesn't effect me any. Only people it would effect are the Taiwanese, and I doubt many of them care. That's too simplified and not necessarily true. Just because one country doesn't adopt something, doesn't make it less popular automatically. If the Taiwanese really want bitcoin, then they can fight for it on their own |