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Comment by noelchurchill

For the sake of thinking it through, how exactly would a government get rid of bitcoin?

I imagine they'd make it illegal to accept bitcoins as payment, which would remove all legitimate users from the market, but illegal drug buyers and sellers may still use it as payment, along with underground bitcoin/cash currency exchanges.

The anonymity of bitcoins may prove to create great enough demand, and help decentralize the illegal drug trade.

parent noelchurchill 15 years ago

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