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		kybernetikos on Feb 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin My 'suggestion' - the prostitution route: make the purchasing of bitcoin illegal, and make soliciting for such a sale illegal too.

VMG on Feb 26, 2014 [–]

People will use dogecoin then, so the law will probably refer to "cryptocurrency". Which will not be easy to define and will probably get other centralized currency schemes in trouble as well.

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