On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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. > > Sorry, I have no idea what this complete nonsequitur is supposed to > mean. We've had a problem with E.Coli in bean sprouts, and we still > have those, too. I can't really speak of other governments and their ignorance. In the US, the government is run by folks who would be happy to write accommodating legislation for a PAC contribution. In practice, macroeconomics has nothing to do with allowing nonsensical instruments.
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