Apparently Bank of Thailand clarifies bitcoin exchange is legal in Thailand

[turtle83]

Remember the fuss caused by one Thai exchange last year : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264241.0

The same exchange now restarts trading. https://bitcoin.co.th/news/ (sorry cant find permanent link to individual posts).

Bitcoin Trading Re-Opened
January 31, 2014
In a letter to Bitcoin Co. Ltd., Bank of Thailand has stated that, after further consideration, Bitcoin exchange operations do not fall under the scope of Ministry of Finance regulation, unless foreign currencies are also offered for exchange.  Considering that Bitcoin Co. Ltd. only offers Bitcoin trades using Thai Baht and operates only within Thailand, we will restart our trading operations.

Over the next few weeks we will be re-checking our trading systems; which have been offline for the past months, and hope to be fully operational shortly.

Bank of Thailand letter: Download original scan (PDF)

I don't read Thai so cant know exactly whats in the letter....

[raymarius]

this is just silly

[tjkurtisss]

Is that true? I have read about Thai that last summer bitcoin became banned in Thailand

[serje]

here is the news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/marketing/395952/bitcoins-back-in-the-thai-marketplace

it appears that the opinions are divided!