Originally Posted by dyna mo

again, to extrapolate from that story that *the government!* will come down on bitcoins because people do not trust banks is pure speculation that I can't see being based on anything.

people have been fearful of banks since their creation and have pulled their money out of them time and again citing the very same things that guy in the op has, yet *the government!* didn;t sweep in and deal with those people and wtf-ever they stashed their ducats in. and these are honest folks, not dopers. like, i would think, the op in the story.