Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin?

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 24, 2013 @10:37AM from the biggest-portion-is-the-lion's-share dept.

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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Re:That's the price you pay by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-24 10:49 · Score: 5, Funny

If only we could put a tax on apostrophe's.
Re:That's the price you pay by JustOK · 2013-03-24 10:49 · Score: 5, Funny

apostrophe's what?

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