You're all terrorists....

[skeitel]

Let's assume for a second here a government let's say the US would want to stop bitcoin.
What makes you think Bitcoin doesn't die a horrible death as soon as the heads and mouths of bitcoin get invited to a free vacation in Guantanamo for supporting terrorists? Think Ver, Versennes, Andresen, Karpeles, etc. etc. You think Bitcoin keeps going on when the movers and shakers are removed? "But but others will take their place!" Yes, they will. On the waterboard.

LOL great post.

[bezzeb]

Let's assume for a second here a government let's say the US would want to stop bitcoin.
What makes you think Bitcoin doesn't die a horrible death as soon as the heads and mouths of bitcoin get invited to a free vacation in Guantanamo for supporting terrorists? Think Ver, Versennes, Andresen, Karpeles, etc. etc. You think Bitcoin keeps going on when the movers and shakers are removed? "But but others will take their place!" Yes, they will. On the waterboard.

LOL great post.

I disagree with the quality of that post.  This "USA-centric" thinking is annoying.  The US is already a gulag state; pick any socio-economic measure that exists and the US won't be anywhere near the top of global rankings.  So what's so great about the USA again?  It's living off a legacy of past excellence while it unravels its past wisdom.  Not likely in the remotest, but yeah - they might water-board every bitcoin owner in the US and some outside, but really.  Believe me.  There is a world beyond Uncle Sam's borders which is getting bigger and better every day. 

Small and well publicised setbacks aside, the positive progress in the world gets no press time and is bigger than most suspect.  So don't believe your nightly news 'cause it's not representative of reality.  ;-)

[Prophet]

A nation has the right to defend itself from both foreign and domestic enemies, if they are physical foes or ideological ones; But the point is mute when the world has already embraced
the BTC by allowing people to declare their earnings and to consider it money. The only terrorists I forse are those ideological ones that support a organizations enemies, North Korea vs South Korea, Western World Vs Iran, activists vs the establishment, environmentalists vs Big Business; Money can be very devisive when people are able to see how much support and backing ideas have that they do not support, especially when it can be catalogued on a giant public ledger, a global tally of world power.

[LorenzoMoney]

Nah! Actually, the US Government only cares about collecting taxes on capital and short term gains, preventing money laundering and stopping drug and illegal arms financing. If you are going to run a legit business, the US Government doesn't care.

Just pay your taxes, and quit visiting SR to get goodies.

Ok, now that I've got your attention with an over dramatic sensationalized headline here is the real deal....

Soon the DHS will announce that anybody who owns, transfers, buys, trades, or settles debts with Bitcoins in the U.S. will be considered a person of interest in terrorist activities.   

That is exactly where I think we are going...Just give it time & with this new scandal literally breaking RIGHT now it further pushes the theory even closer to reality. With all the recent activities & Government involved shut downs of BTC & now this HUGE breaking news that websites like these including FB, Yahoo, Google, etc. are not only monitored but they have access to your accounts just makes it all worse...I can not believe the intrusiveness and abuse of power this U.S. Government has taken.  Soon well all have to be using TOR until that is outlawed... 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/new-leak-feds-can-access-anything-in-your-google-facebook-and-more/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/liberty-reserve-operators-accused-of-money-laundering.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://betabeat.com/2013/05/department-of-homeland-security-shuts-down-dwolla-payments-to-and-from-mt-gox/

The list goes on...