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Idiotic. All they have to do is block payment processing.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Idiotic. All they have to do is block payment processing.
- b0p1x 11y agoI doubt they could change that without changing federal law.
- ocschwar 11y agoAs opposed to requiring IP-based blacklists? If a resident of Quebec is in debt, it's the province's duty to collect on it. If the province says they will not collect on debts incurred with online gambling, it becomes the gambling site's problem. It's not like the Mounties are going to come collect on credit card charges to a gambling site.
- 3pt14159 11y agoBitcoin is pretty easy to get these days man. Payment processing isn't the panacea it once was.
- jpambrun 11y agoYes, but it raises barrier of entry. Furthermore, the proposed firewall will be trivial to bypass with VPN. So that is not exactly fool-proof either.
- ocschwar 11y agoSame issue. QC says they won't collect on CC charges to a Bitcoin trader. It becomes the Bitcoin site's problem to decide whether to sell BC to QC residents or whether to exclude them. That still leaves all 3 gambling-addicted bitcoin miners in Quebec, but well, what can you do...