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January 27, 2014, 09:56:12 PM |
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Shrem's arrest? Very bullish. Why do I say that? Irrational bulltard? No, I don't think so. When you check out the facts...
-Shrem arrested for his involvement in "laundering"*** $1 million to Silk Road sellers
-HSBC caught red-handed laundering billions, with a B, to terrorists and drug cartels - No one arrested
-FBI, DEA, CIA, multiple other government agencies caught red-handed colluding with mexican drug cartels and even outright smuggling cocaine into the country - No one arrested.
It's bullish because, yet again, it exposes those in charge in a very bad way. Yet another message from .GOV - "if you launder money, you'll get in trouble - unless you're us, or a big bank."
Seeing as bitcoin is specifically designed to make it very difficult for government to fuck with currency, this preferential treatment is good for Bitcoin in the same way that the Cyprus "haircut" was good for Bitcoin.
*** Did I put laundering in quotation marks because I am a anarcho-tard libtardarian tinfoilhat-wearing lunatic? No, I put it in quotation marks because as anyone who studies general semantics would know, words can be used in very different ways, and the way the government uses the term "money laundering," as reflected by its preferential treatment to certain types of criminals, is very different than the way someone like myself would use the term. So the quotation marks affect the differences in abstraction to avoid potential misunderstandings.
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