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Other => Politics & Society => Topic started by: lemonte on March 18, 2015, 05:02:49 PM



Title: UK residents, in Light Of George Osborne's plans we want to know your thoughts
Post by: lemonte on March 18, 2015, 05:02:49 PM
UK residents, we want to know what you think about the Government's proposed plans

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-currencies-call-for-information

We are running a  very short survey here: http://www.miningpool.co.uk/uk-bitcoin-survey/


Title: Re: UK residents, in Light Of George Osborne's plans we want to know your thoughts
Post by: chmod755 on March 18, 2015, 05:29:39 PM
I can't believe Bitstamp - as a UK-registered company - didn't respond to the call for information.


Title: Re: UK residents, in Light Of George Osborne's plans we want to know your thoughts
Post by: DooMAD on March 18, 2015, 06:49:57 PM
I can't believe Bitstamp - as a UK-registered company - didn't respond to the call for information.

One of crypto's greatest merits is it's propensity to make middlemen (whose sole purpose is to take a cut while providing no tangible productivity) pointless and unnecessary.  There doesn't seem much point in explaining it to politicians, who are the epitome of pointless and unnecessary middlemen.  Once we've finished decentralising money and making banks obsolete, elected representatives are next for the scrapheap.


Title: Re: UK residents, in Light Of George Osborne's plans we want to know your thoughts
Post by: chmod755 on March 18, 2015, 07:07:47 PM
Bitstamp is different in that it's dealing with Bitcoin and government money.  

By the way: Bitcoin is getting bigger, because we have middlemen like Coinbase, Circle, Xapo, etc. making it user-friendly.


Title: Re: UK residents, in Light Of George Osborne's plans we want to know your thoughts
Post by: Lethn on March 18, 2015, 09:47:30 PM
I'm going to have to read through all this before I can even begin speculating on what they've got planned nevermind give my opinion, you'll have to bear with me if they're bringing in new legislation.