http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/bitcoin-legal-regulation-india (In this paper, Vipul Kharbanda analyses the laws and regulations that apply to Bitcoin in India, and comes to the conclusion that the government has wide powers that it can exercise, if it wishes, to regulate Bitcoin.) Even though it's written with India's legal regime in focus, this article appears to give an excellent overview of the nature of BTC as a financial instrument (of sorts). Kind of legal primer on BTC thus, blank India out if you wish, yet in a globalised world and unified world-wide financial regimes and regulatory policies, it doesn't make very much difference. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
