Because ICOs are relatively easy to stop - if they are public- if the owners are public- if the platforms they launch on are public- then it is a bottleneck- one that is easily attacked - its a weak point.

If you stuck an ICO and an address onto  a forum (I knew a forum once where this happened regularly) and ask people to send BTC- and your OpSec was up to scratch - and you could then make use of  the funds - and access your profits..
then it is far tricker to stop. Thing is... if you raise 100 million - in a non public - platform based manner... then you have 100 million for your ICO- but how do you use those funds? (unless you pay for everything in cryptocurrency) it is trickier the larger the sum involved. You could fly under the radar and legitimise a mil-but over that and its going to start throwing obstacles at you...

The other thing is- sandboxing ICOs in your own country is one problem...  sandboxing the entire country from the rest of the world is not so easy... (i.e China cannot make France also ban ICOs and also control if Chinese people decide to evade  the rules and invest in a french based ICO)

To police it is difficult- to stop it is near on impossible - their best bet is to go after the bottlenecks and to legislate and criminalise and threaten violence and incarceration.

BTC is anti fragile - China has no control over which other countries allow BTC and have little recourse to stop their own, nor any other countries citizens to stop using BTC.

In short - they just want to get their hands around ICOs iMO and they will be back in the future- executed by smart contracts- and linked into digital identities... - linked to digital assets- all linked to PBOC - -everyone paying their taxes- all KYC'd up and with some perceived control over capital outflow. They know better than to try to stop BTC - it would be a futile and monumental waste of time and resources- plus they will fail.





 

I wonder which one.










... where do I make my deposit Jamie?

Meh- I am wondering if it is a coincidence tbh..

More likely to do with China exchange news.

Either way.

BTC will shrug this shit off and do what it does

I am wondering if we will see P2P style exchanges- or new regulated and sanctioned  exchanges (using "CNYT") (Nationalised exchanges ?)

Also keep an eye on Local Bitcoins China -I am wondering if they will escape the ""exchange ban"" and if we will see increased traffic/sales.

Pushing stuff underground really does not work.

China love a ban though! (they are cracking down on group chat too  soon..)

Social media - 3rd children

etc

He certainly knows a thing or two about fraud ...



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-madoff/madoff-said-jpmorgan-executives-knew-of-his-fraud-lawsuit-idUSBREA1J21W20140220

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2016/03/18/jp-morgan-chase-the-true-story-of-americas-most-corrupt-bank/#62e288643cfc

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-madoff/madoff-said-jpmorgan-executives-knew-of-his-fraud-lawsuit-idUSBREA1J21W20140220

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/jamie-dimons-jpmorgan-cha_b_1515185.html


https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2015/01/16/should-jaime-diamon-be-criminally-prosecuted/#257f023d3208

...and clearly knows fuck  all  about cryptocurrency or blockchain tech or the state of play in 2017

Hmmm  I  wonder if

Trade BTC /ALTS  VS "CNYT"   then Swap "CNYT"  to CNY ?

(There was a rumour floating around that a PBOC related e-wallet released onto Apple store today - not looked into it)

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon calls bitcoin ‘a fraud’, ‘worse than tulip bulbs’
 
https://www.ft.com/content/b1ee6c14-2cd0-3ad5-a9db-c8e82d993987


 

Long been one of my least favourite people - what a total and utter douche bag

Only 802 People Paid Taxes on Bitcoin Profits, IRS Says

https://cointelegraph.com/news/only-802-people-paid-taxes-on-bitcoin-profits-irs-says

 

..... I seem to have lost my trousers and pants and the shirt off of my back...

Brother.....if you have to ask......

(what is your girl friends number?)

...my little  virgin friend...

Anyone knows when the cock is flaccid you fuck harder..

When it is sensitive you ease off...

The idea behind sex is to  make your WOMAN cum...

Stop  being so selfish.

You are a boy.

Experience and time and patience are the mark of the man...

It does not matter when she cums...(as long as she cums hard)

Not to her, nor I...

What  matters is the splash on my face...

Are you....with a straight face........going to  tell me this.....

....... how this party ends?

Please do tell..

I have lots of time....



ps... like I said... remind me of the last time BTC needed blue pills - (Mt Gox> until  2017- PLEASE tell me  we are due for another  "bull" market. I am WELLLLLLL up for another"BULL"Market- please lets have a bull market repeat... how many times  did it go up in those 3-4 years?? Like I said at the time, and ever since- it is DUMB money that waits to  get into this market... year after year since 2009 has shown the dumb money where their ass is. END OF.

Please give me another 3 years "bear"

Give  me a fucking break..

(Now you  have to bend over even more)

(yeah ......now I FEEL you)

(ps feel free to come and bite me come 2021)

(love you more)

What happened between MtGox and now ??

If you are calling for a repeat ...

I HEAR YEE!

(do some maths and come back to me with figures)

(thanks)

(love you)

Touch your toes baby....  hmmm yeah..there we go

I see where you are coming from,but BTC 2014 was not what is is today...

Honestly .... your post is transparent

China IS on board did you not notice by the Chinese buying fucka loada  BTC past few years? ? non?  hmmmkay!
(their gubermint is another matter- but even then DUUHgubermint close down is BULLISH as history has shown us)

Take note of every IP based ban in the past

This will get uttelry raped in its little bumhole..

My best bets is that this is all going to turn into something very very bullish for BTC.

Prohibition.... we all knows hows thats be workin' out.

Plus I think our friends in the land of the red dragon are faking us out.

Not that it could not get dirty on the way.

But we know where this is headed right my stable headed friends?

They are afraid of this bull.

Well they should be because it has a big hard cock.

No escaping it.

Open wide.

Merkelized abstract syntax trees

Check again

Pushed

http://dg0.dtrt.org/en/releases/

(edit - I see what you mean - anyway  incoming)

MAST incoming too    (potentially)

Core 0.15 incoming

Update - fix bug/"vulnerability"amongst other things-   (Chris Jeffrey talked about at Breaking Bitcoin Paris  (doozy of a story) supposedly known by core and fixed already in 0.15 but not deployed - update 0.15 !)

p.s Bitcoin Core 0.15  will automatically disconnect Seg 2X nodes

x2 be dead