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Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin?

New submitter F9rDT3ZE writes "Salon writer Andrew Leonard examines the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) first 'guidance' regarding 'de-centralized virtual currencies,' noting that Bitcoin's supporters call it a 'currency of resistance,' while others suggest that 'the more popular Bitcoin gets, whether as a symbol of resistance or a perceived safe haven in financially troubled times, the more government attention it will inevitably draw, and the more inexorably it will be sucked into existing regulatory structures.'"

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  1. Re:That's the price you pay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only we could put a tax on apostrophe's.

  2. Re:That's the price you pay by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    apostrophe's what?

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  3. Re:bitcoin's value is for it's utopian idealizatio by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    when you can only process opposition to your worldview in simpleminded cartoon stereotypes, you might have a problem

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  4. Re:That's the price you pay by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tolkein? Is that you?

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  5. Re:That's the price you pay by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · Score: 4, Funny

    M'or'e lik'e L'ov'e'craf't, Im' th'inki'ng.

    Posted from ph'nglui mglw'nafh.

  6. Re:That's the price you pay by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    lol its sad that i get this.

    *facepalm*

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  7. Re:That's the price you pay by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like someone couldn't afford the apostrophe tax.

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