Maybe they should start with the Federal Reserve to learn about illicit finance.

Credit where due brother... you called it first.

Yeah it has always been speculation that BFL was mining with customers money ("the monarchs work just not reliable right now").... I'm sure it was easy for them to move btc around well b4 investigations began... somebody's brother in law is sitting on a large pile right now.

Over the past year, it’s become a lot easier to buy bitcoin, thanks to services such as Coinbase. And thanks to retailers such as Overstock.com and TigerDirect, it’s now a lot easier to to spend them online. But there’s still one big pothole in bitcoin’s bumpy road to mainstream adoption: Your local coffee shop.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/square-bitcoin/

The organization is led by Jerry Brito, a law professor and a former research fellow at George Mason's Mercatus Center. In an announcement made Thursday, Brito said Coin Center is a "new non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies."


http://www.cnet.com/news/bitcoin-gains-support-of-cryptography-think-tank/

Why do we buy any products from this repressive society?
Read the label folks!

I've had my credit card number jacked 3 times in two years and they're concerned about BTC security?

No doubt about it I'm buying at these prices... chicken littles go home and whine to your mama... we got a future to look forward to.

I like to think of this as today's IBM 5150 PC... We should not expect lightning speed or sub dollar fees at this early stage.
Even if this isn't your ideal experience it's still worth supporting if you want the technology to evolve.
10 minutes vs days from banks sounds better already... especially when you consider the history of the federal reserve mismanagement.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/12/us-usa-bitcoin-cftc-idUKKBN0H71FU20140912

TeraExchange on Friday launched a swap based on the bitcoin virtual currency, becoming the first to receive approval from a U.S. federal regulator for a financial product based on the budding technology.

Someone should contact Spanish language newspapers in the states... get the word out.

Prepare for the fraud questions... this seems to be the underlying theme with newby's knowledge of bitcoin.

I'm looking at naked pics of Kate Upton that were "securely stored" on a cloud.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/coinsafe-may-have-solved-the-bitcoin-transaction-speed-problem/

Bitcoin transactions aren’t actually instant. Because each transfer requires a number of confirmations via the mining process, some Bitcoin moves can take minutes or even half an hour. CoinSafe, however, may have created a solution that can process BTC transactions in seconds.

This is one of those moments when the stars are lined up to buy.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/with-a-bitcoin-etf-risk-isn-t-virtual-1410120108

Some wealthy investors are already buying into a trust that tracks the average dollar price of the virtual currency. And the firm behind that trust is racing one other to bring bitcoins to the masses in the form of a publicly traded fund.

BTC as an investment appears to be rock solid... compared to parking your cash in a bank account which earns you no growth opportunities... why not venture into a much higher upside.... we are in a state of major infrastructure growth and a broad based public recognition... with today's price I can't think of a better time to secure coins.

Would Coinbase or Bitpay be able to scale to this level anytime soon?... seems like a massive undertaking for them.

Let's take this survey again in two years