Thailand Bans Bitcoin

[vokain]

Can't wait until 'The Newsroom' covers BTC

is there a reason you said this?? is it going to be covered? or just wishful thinking. i like that show

[buysellbitcoin]

Me thinks journalism has just collapsed!


Heck, I think I'll just register a website, post on my blog that Heroin is now approved for medicinal purposes the world over after having had a meeting with the WHO, next thing we see is pretty much all news website confirming Heroin is now legal for medicinal purposes. No need to wait until the WHO confirms this, let alone governmental spokes persons.   Cool

Cheers

[MrHempstock]

Can't wait until 'The Newsroom' covers BTC

is there a reason you said this?? is it going to be covered? or just wishful thinking. i like that show

Just wishful thinking 

[wopwop]

I guess I'm going to have to go somewhere else to find ladyboys that take bitcoin. Damn.

Lol @ that this is the 2nd post to this topic

Comes to tell us how truly gay this community is
Not saying that is a bad thing, just an instinctive first impression that for some primitive reason I felt like sharing with you

U1A

[greyhawk]

U1A

The fuck is this?

[vokain]

U1A

The fuck is this?

probably a codeword for gays that signals that he is open for gay solicitations 

[CoinGames]

Can't wait until 'The Newsroom' covers BTC

This dumb story could only get so much play on a very slow news day...

[dondon]

Pretty clear this Thailand story is bogus now.

But I wonder what effect it would have on prices if a country like USA decided to somehow impose a ban on Bitcoins?

Would it take a short dive and then bounce back, have a lasting impact, or make no noticeable difference to the value. Any thoughts?

[franky1]

Pretty clear this Thailand story is bogus now.

But I wonder what effect it would have on prices if a country like USA decided to somehow impose a ban on Bitcoins?

Would it take a short dive and then bounce back, have a lasting impact, or make no noticeable difference to the value. Any thoughts?

how i see it. is this

in the US it is illegal to hunt animals.....
in the US it is illegal to wire transfer large amounts as a business on customers behalf.....


.... unless you have a licence.

i believe this is the first step towards thailand adopting the same bureaucracy of the western world. adding licences and regulation.

at the moment there are no licences for money transmission but they do ask what is the money being transmitted being used for, which there is a limited amount of purposes allowed. EG sending funds to family members. foreigners sending funds home. etc.

[GigaDice]

I wonder if any other countries have considered an outright ban on BTC and how they would plan on enforcing such a thing without looking moronic.

[vokain]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264203.msg2851595#msg2851595
 

[QuestionAuthority]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264203.msg2851595#msg2851595
 

This thread has clearly run it's course and now regressing to discussion of Buddhism, washing machines and my personal life.

ROTFLMAO

[duravello]

I wonder if any other countries have considered an outright ban on BTC and how they would plan on enforcing such a thing without looking moronic.

the standard procedure is to ban and only later realizing the laws have hard time enforcing such a thing

[BitCoinNutJob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7g8LXR0YUg

[vokain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7g8LXR0YUg

hahahhahha, this is gold!

[toddtervy]

If Thailand still bans bitcoin maybe you can get around that by trading anonymously.

[jdbtracker]

I find this so amusing... now we can monitor how Bitcoin functions inside a country that has illegalized it, we should observe how this develops... maybe even help bypass their system for future occurences of illegalization. How does the Thai legal system function? where does it connect to the internet? How do it's citizens react? are they for or against? if for, can the ban be enforced?