the chilling effect...

[thezerg]

This thread documents the chilling effect.  The invisible pressure to discredit Bitcoin.  Please put on your tinfoil hat and add items here.  Either first person testimonials or verifiable web links.

The first item is the top return if you google "Ben Bernanke letter bitcoin":

Ben Bernanke’s letter to Congress: Bitcoin and other virtual currencies “may hold long-term promise”:
http://qz.com/148399/ben-bernanke-bitcoin-may-hold-long-term-promise/

The article says "Here’s the full text of Bernanke’s letter…" but the link now points to a DHS report on money laundering using virtual currencies:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/835843-virtual-currency-hearings.html.

Deliberate or accidental?  You decide...

[AnonyMint]

I have a foundational basis to believe they are promoting their Trojan coin (Bitcoin), while simultaneously planning the takeover with AML, KYC, taxes, etc.:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=349869.msg3760634#msg3760634
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=349869.msg3755466#msg3755466

They recently announced their plans to eliminate cash so they can lock us into electronic currency with NEGATIVE interest rates paid on balances.

Note this is different than Freicoin's demurrage, because my understanding of their intent is you won't have choice to move your funds out to another investment (capital controls to fund the write-down of the global sovereign debt collapse on the back of the middle-class and not on the upper 0.1%).

Connect the dots.