Bitcoins and Liberty Reserve
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all the mentioned e-currencies had major exchangers in non us countries...
they were depending heavily on not being US based...
all of them got shut down everywhere on the same day...
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they are clamping down a bit now. you used to be able to buy bitcoins 'anonymously' by walking into a bank and depositing cash into their account. they stopped allowing this and now require all kinds of documents. too bad. you can be damn sure a good number of canadians using bitcoins are going to get audited. they did the same thing with big users of epass.you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..Comment
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Apart from Webmoney (Russian) the other companies you have listed where either operating out of the US in some way or had incorporated their company in some tiny island or small country that was easy for the US to pressurise into closing them down.
Adult King posted this the other day concerning Liberty Reserves
Going forward I don't see the US being able to pressure or bully countries like Russia & China into closing down Bitcoin exchanges IF Russia & China are willing to let Bitcoin flourish.They made no effort to enforce KYC regulations, on the contrary they went to significant lengths to ensure that they had as little information as possible about the nature of what their customers were doing.
Furthermore they created a fake set of accounts accessible to the Costa Rican authorities on the Liberty Reserve platform to attempt to get around financial tracking requirements.
Considering Google Ventures are investing in it, it could have an interesting futureComment
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In China you can only use BTC (or any virtual currency) for online purchases, like video games, memberships, and so on. Their current law forbids cyber currency from being used in the real market. That may change, but as of today that is the law. That said, for the online market alone it could be enormous.
Russia on the other hand...Comment


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