2013-05-20 CNBC : After Government Raid, Jittery Future for Bitcoin

[bobdude17]

   http://www.cnbc.com/id/100750803

[aigeezer]

   http://www.cnbc.com/id/100750803

Odd piece - all over the map.

I don't think I've seen this version of the DHS "seizure" before though: "The action comes after the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued guidance around the currency in March, which required intermediaries (like Dwolla) that handle bitcoins to register as money services businesses." The usual spin is that they were after Gox, not Dwolla and that Gox, not Dwolla should have registered blah blah.

[Bitcopia]

MtGox account seizure was not an attack on bitcoin. It was an attack on a business that was clearly acting as a money transmitter that failed to obtain licensing. Holding US customers funds for future delivery = money transmitter that better be licensed on federal and state levels. These articles of doom are funny. Most of them fail to grasp the entirety of what's happening.

[cbeast]

How cute. I know the power of DHS. I am a member of DHS Highway Watch. One time I reported a bed spring laying on the highway in a call to 911. DHS broke in on the call because it was me calling it in. They have all the power of the FBI and CIA, but none of the accountability. None. Even Gestapo had to answer to their dictator, yet DHS answers no one.

Look, I'm not against regulation, but this play just shows how clueless DHS is. On a side note, I wonder how airline miles are traded and what licensing mtgox would need to issue airline miles with big long serial numbers.

[oakpacific]

What's the media keeps trying to tell you is the stupid will win, and the revolutionary and advanced will lose.

[zby]

Why Mutum Sigillum is always conflated with Mt. Gox in the news reports?  Wires from Mt Gox accounts in the Chase Morgan US based bank go through without any problem.