pretzelogik Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 Well, I guess they are starting to take it seriously. http://gigaom.com/2013/05/14/homeland-security-seizes-funds-at-main-bitcoin-exchange-report/
AlesD Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 They are taking it seriously also here in Europe similar thing happened to one bitcoin exchange here. This was not talked about in the media much but some people got quite some money locked because the bank accounts were siezed by the police to investigate them for money laundering how i understand it. Another possibility is that they just want to scare people away from Bitcoin by creating problems. For the people who are interested look at the site https://bitcoin-24.com/ where they have lawyer updates. And there is a forum where people talk about what is going on http://btc24-help.com. Another thing i don't know how many people have seen Canada already said they will tax Bitcoin transactions. http://rt.com/business/bitcoins-currency-taxable-canada-496/ To me this is an expected reaction they want to kill it before it becomes a threat. They can not follow individuals but the weak link are the exchanges and companies doing business which are visible to the gun fo the state. Anyway even if the state gets hold of it we know for sure it can not become inflationary just they will make it much more difficult to use with many regulations i guess so it might kill most of the benefits. I'm very interested to see this developments becuse it is also a very good example of how a state reacts when it sees something that might pose a threat in the long run.
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