Block chain fork: Can now FinCEN legally go against Bitcoin core devs?

[Sergio_Demian_Lerner]

i always enjoyed reading ur stuff but this is utterly bullshit, im disappointed.

You're "disappointed".
What kind of i@!@t are you?
Just don't read my damn posts!

[HiveLibrary]

Bitcoiners, create something soccer moms will relate to or soccer moms will kill Bitcoin by begging them to shut down them evil drug dealers on the Internets.

Stop hoarding you morons and start building.

Some of us already are.

[Timo Y]

Influence is not the same as control.  They made a recommendation.  The market decided in favor of them. That's it.

If Linus Torvalds proposes a Kernel change, and the change gets accepted, and it ends up costing Facebook millions of dollars, can Facebook sue Linus for damages? Of course not.

[HiveLibrary]

Please understand that I'm not trying to go against the core dev team.
I KNOW the did not order anything.

I just want to analyze if there is any piece of evidence that can be used against them.

I think at this point the real danger is not what they could do in an honest manner, but what they want to do.

Even if they demanded that people switch, short of buying up botnets galore at a loss, they could not force it as there is no contractual binding by which they could legally punish those who refuse. A contract requires two parties or none exists.

What's really dangerous is their ability to confuse regulators with more power than they have.

This is where the libertarian ideal of leave me alone fails. Being left alone does not excuse you from reality. If we fail to inform and educate we deserve all the consequences.