It seems to me there is much fear whether Bitcoin is legal or not in many places around the world. It isnunderstandable as most countries do not yet have systemic legislation on crypto assets, going as far as not even being able to legally define crypto currencies.

The answer to the question if Bitcoin is legal in such circumstances will depend on where one is from and the legal principles enshrined in their legal systems. In English common law system there is a principle that everything that is not expressly forbidden, is allowed. Try to find out if this is a principle where you are from. It has been adopted in many other countries as well.

Your starting point can be your consistution. If there is a general principle of freedom enacted in your constitution, it is a good start.

The next important principle in many legal systems is that there can be no crime nor criminal reprecusions if there was no previous law prohibiting certain acts as criminal (precisely), in latin: Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali, also: lege certa. This principle should be widely accepted around the world. Again, check your constitution. This principle guarantees that at the very least one will not be criminally persecuted for acquiring, holding or selling crypto assets if there was no law criminalising these actions at the time when they were executed.

I hope this will help the beginning of one's search if they are troubled by these questions.

Exactly

But it is not on this web site.

The topic can be moved, I just thought it is relevant to Meta because of purpose of reducing spam posting 

I don't know if this is possible or not, but many forums offer the possibility for member to create their own blogs, which they can either share or restrict access to. They reduce spamming the forum itself, member can use them when they are not sure some content is wellcome on the boards or not and other member can chose whether they want to see/read that content. Just wanted to put this idea out there, maybe it can be used one day

OMG this made me laugh so hard . There is someone walking around thinking Megathread is the name of the journalist...

Anyway, the whole world is reacting. US may not want to lose some deals and that is fine, but to not strongly condemn such actions becase - taxes? C'mon.

Many people expect there will be another bull run in the more or less near future. But who, whose money, what will be the fuel for next bull run? New investors? Smart money? Why? Do elaborate, I am very curious to know your thoughts.

LOL, I won't do anything like that

Not that I can have one yet but when I AM able to have it, is it allowed to take an image from the internet and use it? Suppose it is not stated the image is copyrighted anywhere. What if anything should I be aware of and make sure of? I just don't want to do anything stupid.

I am just glad it won't be Hillary. She tried playing the feminist card, but her personal choices showed she does not mind if she is disrespected by men (meaning her own husband). Her actions didn't seem to match her words.

Not full world police mode, agreed. But Trump did the right thing when he warned the Saudis. Quite brave too, since Saudis are long term allies of the US. US has huge influence around the world and these symbolic (or not so symbolic) acts convey a strong message.

I am pretty sure it is not in original whitepaper. But I see no reason for devs not to adapt to reality of wide adoption. Especially if it brings profit to investors by increasing coin price and value. I have said it before, if one is not laundering money or doing something illegal, regulation is not a bad thing.

That said, ETN dev better have a good data protection plan in place. They are responsible for data protection as I am sure they must be well aware of.

True, they did. I was able to move the coins to paper wallet until I am ready to sell them. You just need to properly follow the project and you will know what you need to know. It is due dilligence to follow your investments anyway.

Every week there is news about even more sexual abuse of children in catholic church and cover ups by many bishops.

It seems it is spread beyond comprehension, yet none of the abusers have been excommunicated and very few ended up in jail. They just get trasferred to another post somewhere!

I am so sick of hearing this and I expect someone to REALLY do something about this! Pope's apologies and condemnations are not enough!

These volnurable kids trusted in these people and so did their parents. Instead of being cared for and protected they ended up having their lives ruined.

I have to agree with this. While I won't do KYC before I am ready to cash out, a lot of people took this as really great news, feel more comfortable with it like everything is clean and in turn with regulations.

With this coin's relatively low supply, it will go sky high if they pull off what they are promising.

You seem to have gotten your first 2 merits easily enough (by making this topic). So you are your own proof one can make progress here.

Price is growing again today and so is the number of active miners in the mobile app.

If people democratically elected ISIS to rule in their country, would you still call it a democracy?

The meaning of democracy is not just majority rule, there are values that are integrate part of what you call a democracy. They have started evolving before French revolution. One of them is human rights and when certain groups of people have their rights trumped - I am sorry, that is no democracy.

I can't believe a possible rapist will become supreme justice. It is scary as hell.