大多数人听到“泰国”，通常认为这是一个梦幻和奇异的热带地方，什么东西都能待价而沽。如果这些想象是真实的，泰国似乎是经济开放，适合所有类型的加密货币。
现实世界中，我们很少有途径看到泰国，尤其是当我们从电视机中看到它。泰国是一个繁荣多变的国家，有许多的机遇和风险。泰国的比特币社区也很繁荣，有四个未注册的交易所和两个完全合法的交易所。泰国的第一个合法交易所由比特币有限公司所开。
最初，在2013年七月，泰国采取强硬立场，反对比特币有限公司提出在泰国银行经营比特币的想法。银行主要担心缺乏有关规定，适用的法律和资本控制。他们也担心对比特币的控制力，因为它适用于经济的很多方面。但这一立场在财政部长发表声明之后开始放松，今年春天，财政部长说，比特币不在他们的法律管辖内，“只要按外币进行交易就行了。”
只在几个月内，立场发生变化，从禁止交易变成许可交易。当第一次放松限制，泰国银行表示，没有任何计划扩展法律加强对比特币的监管。然而一个现实的事实是，泰国的比特币社区繁荣成长，规定比特币不是“货币”，但并不禁止使用或持有比特币。我们必须记住，政府关闭了国家最大的比特币交换所，之后又允许它恢复运营。
直到现在，泰国的比特币交易还是不受管制。
货币（泰国）有限公司（Coins (Thailand) Co. Ltd），现在是第二个完全合法的比特币交易所，和泰国比特币公司并驾齐驱，比特币市场只有两家交易所获得了电子商务注册。但比特币仍被作为商品，而不是货币进行交易。泰国政府似乎不准备改变这种规定，同时商人也不必把比特币作为法定货币接受。然而，好事情是越来越多的商家接受比特币，据估计，现在超过30家。
评论：俄罗斯变了，泰国松了，相信中国也不远了。
When most Westerners hear the word “Thailand” they usually envision and exotic tropical local where anything is available for a price. If these images were real then Thailand would seem to be the type of open economic environment that is perfect for cryptocurrencies of all types.
The real world is seldom the way that we see it however, especially if the way we see it is from our televisions. Thailand is a thriving, diverse county with many opportunities as well as risks. The Bitcoin community in Thalland is thriving with four unregistered exchanges and now two fully legal exchanges. The first legal exchange in Thailand was opened by Bitcoin Company Limited.
But, like most of the world, the government in Bangkok has been, to say the least, hesitant to embrace Bitcoin and their overall negative attitude has led to rumors that the government hadbanned cryptocurrencies all together. Whatever Thailand’s stance on Bitcoin was in the past doesn’t matter as the country approved its first and second fully-legal and fully-regulated Bitcoin exchanges.
The country began to take a hard stance against Bitcoin in July, 2013 after Bitcoin Company Limited presented the idea of Bitcoin operations in the country to the Bank of Thailand. The Bank was mainly concerned with the lack of regulation or even applicable laws and capital controls. They also had concerns about the ability to control Bitcoin because it applies to so many different facets of the economy. But this stance began to relax in the spring after the Minister of Finance made the statement that Bitcoin was not in their legal jurisdiction “so long as foreign currencies are used to make the exchanges.”
The stance changed from a ban on trading to ‘permitted trading’ but to/from Thai baht only within a few months. When the restrictions were first relaxed, the Bank of Thailand said that it had no plans to make any expansions in the law with regards to regulating Bitcoin. One reality however is that the Bitcoin community in Thailand is thriving and growing and ruling that Bitcoin was not “currency” was not a ban on using or holding Bitcoin. We must remember that while the government shut down the countries biggest Bitcoin exchange, it later allowed it to resume operations.
But until now Bitcoin exchanges in Thailand were unregulated. Then an exchange opened earlier this year to complement the Bitcoin Company LTD. The company’s E-Commerce registration was approved on June 20, 2014 by the Huay Khwang District Office and the exchange’s website(coins.co.th) is open for business.
Coins (Thailand) Co. Ltd. is now the second fully regulated Bitcoin exchange in Thailand alongside Thai Bitcoin marketplace with only these two exchanges obtaining e-commerce registrations. But Bitcoin is still being traded as a commodity and not as currency. And the Thai government does not appear ready to change this anytime soon while merchants are not obligated to accept it as legal tender. The good thing is however that more and more merchantsare accepting Bitcoin, which now number over 30 according to some estimates.
from:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/112043/thailand-approves-fully-legal-bitcoin-exchange
