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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
^ The US Government can do whatever it wants if it wants to, practically anywhere it wants, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
They simply have to prohibit anyone from accepting or using bitcoins who lives in the US, has any business or other connection to the US or who wants to set foot on US soil at any point in time ever and it would immediately be rendered even more useless (as a payment system) than it is already.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
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Executive Order 6102 is an Executive Order signed on April 5, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates within the continental United States".
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
The only reason anyone is showing any interest now is because of the nutty price they rise to, compared to five seconds earlier.
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People want to know what it is, not why it is.