If Bitcoin was made illegal by your government would you still use it?

[tabas]

Would have to be careful with it, or stop using it. But if i had a lot of bitcoin i would just move to a better country that didn't ban it.

Me either I will become cautious and careful if the government will declare bitcoin as illegal in our society. But I will still keep on using it because there are a lot of ways that I can still consider to keep on using bitcoins with the help of mixers and as well as some exchange sites. But it looks like that I am already a criminal if I did that.

[darklus123]

Yes I absolutely would continue to use bitcoin if my country banned it. I HODL, what would I be supposed to do, give up my coins?

Fuck the government.

Then it would be very fatal for you sir if ever that you if ever that you will be traced by the government using this technology. Now on that cased i would have no choice but to rather withdraw my amounts probably all to be safe than sorry later on.

[Doamader]

Government doesnt care about bitcoin nowadays, their focus is to win the elections, if something like that happens well i dont care, the most choises that those people does makes results just into more taxes. Banning bitcoin for me would mean nothing, i will keep investing and earning bitcoin, buying and selling it, government must take care the country problems and not bitcoin.

[BADecker]

Presently in America, we are seeing a sudden turn to basic common law. This common law is not the description that the courts have decided it means. This is the REAL common law, the common law of the people. It is expressed through the jury.

If Government ever comes after you for anything and takes you to court, if you demand it, they have to have an injured man or woman against you. The injury has to be for real. They have to prove it was you that did the injury. It is basic law.

If Ross Ulbricht had demanded this, there would be no way Government could have brought a person that Ross had harmed onto the stand and prove that Ross had done the harm.

In addition, an informed jury can overrule any law in America. It's called jury nullification, and it was recently used for the benefit of the people here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1664078.0 and here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1664275.0.

In fact, when you study jury nullification, if enough juries nullify a law, the law has to be repealed.

[R3ffun]

If Bitcoin was made illegal by your government and the punishment was very bad, would you still use it, would you still openly support it?

i will still use it for it no harm other people..
so how with goverment made illegal i don't care

[Barbut]

My government still doesn't have any regulations for bitcoin, I sell them and take money without any problem's. I don't see that they doing anything in that question, I'm not sure how much they are aware of bitcoin existence.
For now and for some next period I have nothing to be afraid of, but even in case they forbid me to use hitcoins, like others I would try to find a way to do it.

[marleybobthedog]

Yes i have to recover my losses that i had faced in bitcoin. And also I can't leave bitcoin a at the middle I have to stop my faucets and other free bitcoin earning sources like in eobot because money would still come in my wallet and i could bit use it and it would be waste of money that I don't want.

[neurotypical]

Would have to be careful with it, or stop using it. But if i had a lot of bitcoin i would just move to a better country that didn't ban it.

Why would you stop using it? if you stop using it then you are falling for their fear and that is what the want, just put fear on people's mind to stop it. Because they can't do nothing else. What are they going to do? they can't stop a decentralized system unless they shut down the internet.

[delliaerd]

If Bitcoin was made illegal by your government and the punishment was very bad, would you still use it, would you still openly support it?

If Bitcoin Really  Made Illegal By My Government Of India Then I Don't Use It Because I Dont Want to Get Punished For Using Bitcoin And Then I Start Using Other Altcoins If Possible to Use in My Country Because You Only Said About Bitcoin....

Yeah good option dude, it is your way to decide don't use bitcoin anymore after your government made illegal by using bitcoin.
But you forget something about one of bitcoin's features. Bitcoin is an anonymous coin that it is hard to identify the real one who using it .
But i don't know if there is the way to search trace who using it personally.

[QuestionAuthority]

It's a payment system not an addictive drug or a sexual orientation.

If debit cards were illegal would you still use them?  No

If writing checks was illegal would you still write checks?  No

If credit cards were illegal would you still use them?  No

If PayPal was illegal would you still use PayPal?  No


Having your money tied up in an illegal payment system that's subject to government confiscation is beyond stupid. It would be more intelligent to wipe your ass with your money and flush it down the toilet. If you flush your money at least you avoid the prison sentence.

[Qunenin]

Yes, off course, i will be used if my government announce, but still now nothing bad things is happening in my country.
But Bitcoin is not a illegal thing and currency, If it is illegal currency, than might be it stop in the started when it come, but now bitcoin has spend many years, so it is a poof that bitcoin is not illegal, also bitcoin give us many facilities and benefits, So i can't understand what's the mean of illegal for bitcoin.   

[Victorycoin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country

wow..I didn't even know that so many countries banned bitcoin...it's crazy

Did you even read? Just because there's a table doesn't mean that it is the list of countries banned bitcoin. If you actually read it, you'll notice that it just says that "status" of bitcoin in those countries. There are countries that has banned bitcoins but bitcoin is still being sold in their country (i.e. Taiwan) . I guess from that we can conclude that even if bitcoin gets banned in your country, you can still actually use it. Most countries just say that it's an unregulated money.

No country is really out to declare that bitcoin is illegal, because they know that would further give credence to it, take a look at what is now going on in China and Russia, instead of going under, bitcoin is now taking center stage in these two countries. The fact, is that the authorities are bothered about the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrencies, because it starves them of the power and control of people's finances, they have been used to and you don't have to be told why that is a source of worry for them.

[mogrith]

Depending on how hard the government tracks down users I might switch to an altcoin.

NAV can synch and stake over tor so no obvious crypto coin traffic can be seen at ISP. Also has anon transfer so even if government searches blockchain they cannot find out address I sent or received NAV from.

If bitcoin is banned in many countries it will just make that altcoin or an even more secure and secretive one be used.

[wahb]

very honestly yes i will still use it as there are still so many other things that are turned as illegal in our country but still we exercise it, for example gambling is totally illegal in our country but still we play it, therefore i can say that even if my government will turn it as illegal still i will out way for using it.

[Anemed]

very honestly yes i will still use it as there are still so many other things that are turned as illegal in our country but still we exercise it, for example gambling is totally illegal in our country but still we play it, therefore i can say that even if my government will turn it as illegal still i will out way for using it.

I too will use it. I would either hold and save it to profit out of exchanging into fiats. When the benefits of bitcoins are read, more and more would benefit from it. I am sure on it. Everyone is looking for earning a bit or more every day. So when it is promised to give profit, I am sure each would at least give a try to it. Hope this is accepted by the government soon. 

[jossiel]

Yes, off course, i will be used if my government announce, but still now nothing bad things is happening in my country.
But Bitcoin is not a illegal thing and currency, If it is illegal currency, than might be it stop in the started when it come, but now bitcoin has spend many years, so it is a poof that bitcoin is not illegal, also bitcoin give us many facilities and benefits, So i can't understand what's the mean of illegal for bitcoin.   

I will do the same too because there are a lot of mixing coin services that we can just use to hide the anonymity of our bitcoin transactions.

And bitcoin is digital so if government will declare bitcoin as illegal, then they must have total control in the internet here in my country.

Because a lot of things can be just hide with the help of web.

[R3ffun]

If Bitcoin was made illegal by your government and the punishment was very bad, would you still use it, would you still openly support it?

i think better no , but before it happens goverment have to know about bitcoin and benefit of bitcoin
bitcoin can help many community so not supposed to be came it illegal

[BrewMaster]

If Bitcoin was made illegal by your government and the punishment was very bad, would you still use it, would you still openly support it?

actually i am not so sure
it would be a bit scary for me to continue using bitcoin for sure. but i think it will surely depend on how hard they hypothetically are going to come down on bitcoin.

[Harlot]

Depending on how hard the government tracks down users I might switch to an altcoin.

NAV can synch and stake over tor so no obvious crypto coin traffic can be seen at ISP. Also has anon transfer so even if government searches blockchain they cannot find out address I sent or received NAV from.

If bitcoin is banned in many countries it will just make that altcoin or an even more secure and secretive one be used.

But isn't that Bitcoin being banned by the majority of the countries affect the other altcoins' price in a bad way? Because Bitcoin was the highest and most valuable cryptocurrency out there. Just by being bitcoin banned don't you think other altcoins will be chase by the government next?  It is a high possibility as it would appear the virtual currency is not in favor with the government.

[mogrith]

Yes like there druggies make new versions that are legal until the law catches up we may need to move to new altcoins or till we get to one that is much harder to tell if used.