Yeah. Especially if it's POW. Can't be shutdown.
It can be effectively shutdown. Just make mining, holding, buying, selling, accepting, and exchanging it illegal.
+1
PoW, PoS or whatever, they will be after it.
They can ban exchanges. But 'mining'? What do they care if I use my hardware for mining. It's none of their business.
This may come as a shock to you...
But between you and the NSA... I would put my money on the NSA...
Though I'm sure you would sell me better quality weed, man
Coins in the Top 100 can be easily DDOSed till they become untrustworthy...
And I'm sure there are exploits that can impair confidence in PoS coins.
It's all a matter of priority....
In order, Feds went after drug markets, ponzis, "local bitcoin" money launderers...
(And the "local bitcoin" guys are often making 6 figure transactions)...
Now that they have beefed up staff and collected 100% of the info and IPs on BitcoinTalk...
They will prioritize the big players and scammers and hunt them down...
You're going to see a lot of well-known BTT "celebrities" in front of Grand Juries in places like Texas and Indiana...
Facing charges for Securities Fraud or Tax Evasion... what fun.
Personally, I want to see Ken Armitt/RealSolid extradited from Australia to face a Grand Jury...
This one I will lobby the SEC and provide detailed information when they get around to this CockSucker.
They probably won't have time for the minnows... maybe just DDOS the shit coins to hell.
Crypto is moving up the Food Chain to Wall Street...
One year from now there will be dozens of ETFs and listed crypto start-ups to trade...
No one with a brokerage account will ever miss this sewer.