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[LegalEagle]

There are no cases involving bitcoin, so you couldn't use them in a brief.

Then how do you suppose the law is applied to new things/ideas?

Do you think that when the first cases were argued regarding telephones, that the attorneys and judges involved said "well, we've got no appellate caselaw about telephones, so there's no need for briefs, we'll just make some shit up"?

HINT: This is a question that can be answered with research.

ANOTHER HINT: The answer starts with "no, that's not what they did."

All you could do is make the plethora of arguments that I've made throughout this thread, and wait for the judge to agree with one of them.

You have not made arguments, you have reported on comments made by unidentified professors and lawyers and you have said that the correct outcome is "obvious". While taking a survey of people with training or experience may be a good way to predict future outcome(s), it is not a substitute for actual reasoning.

Perhaps that's all that you can do right now, but you should not imagine that your limitations are universal.

I suspect that as your education continues, you will reach a point where you are capable of coming up with arguments about how and why existing legal doctrines can and should be extended (or not) to fit new situations or technologies.

Look, I understand that you probably feel like a retard for being completely wrong after acting as arrogent as you guys did.

I'm not even going to address your assertion that I have made zero arguments in support of BitCoin being property, as you're clearly just grasping at any argument you can right now.  Go read through the thread, and think next time before you get behind a loudmouth like Sunnankar. 

Also, don't patronize me about my education.  I'm right, you're wrong.  Deal with it.

[matonis]

I really miss this thread so I wrote this blog post on "tangible prepaid access devices" and brainwallets:

Department Of Homeland Security To Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/07/department-of-homeland-security-to-scan-payment-cards-at-borders-and-airports/

Brainwallets appear to be safe for now:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FINCEN-2011-0003-0016

[marcus_of_augustus]

I really miss this thread so I wrote this blog post on "tangible prepaid access devices" and brainwallets:

Department Of Homeland Security To Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/07/department-of-homeland-security-to-scan-payment-cards-at-borders-and-airports/

Brainwallets appear to be safe for now:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FINCEN-2011-0003-0016

Stirrer ... 

Stop "patronizing" our intrepid legal researcher ... (I miss this thread too).

[blakdawg]

Look, I understand that you probably feel like a retard for being completely wrong after acting as arrogent as you guys did.

I'm not even going to address your assertion that I have made zero arguments in support of BitCoin being property, as you're clearly just grasping at any argument you can right now.  Go read through the thread, and think next time before you get behind a loudmouth like Sunnankar. 

Also, don't patronize me about my education.  I'm right, you're wrong.  Deal with it.

When the law against you, emphasize the facts.

When the facts are against you, emphasize the law.

When the law and the facts are against you, speak angrily and pound the table a lot.

You seem to be a living example of the third maxim.

Perhaps you should rename yourself LegalSparrow - as an "eagle", you're still in the phase of development where the adult birds drop pre-chewed food in your mouth.

You're the one who's going to be apologizing for your arrogance in a few years.