On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:53 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >>It is my intuition that nation states of all stripes aren't going to >>like them. Some set of them would be happy to let the banks and >>speculators take care of it. Some of them would engage in actual >>hacking to hurt the currency, and the interesting property that >>destroying a bitcoin is a worthwhile attack makes it even more >>interesting. > > My impression is that it's not a problem, since I don't think there > are any significant governments so ignorant of macroeconomics to > confuse Bitcoins, which are commodities, with money. I seem to recall a problem with derivatives in the past, and we still have them. I believe if wall street could figure out a way to make money on BitCoins, they would be legitimized and macroeconomics would be set aside again.
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