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How much success, historically, has the US government had at regulating math? I can't think of any, but it's not really my specialty so I'm curious if anyone's
by TameAntelope 5y ago
How much success, historically, has the US government had at regulating math? I can't think of any, but it's not really my specialty so I'm curious if anyone's encountered a successful example.
- NationalPark 5y agoQuite a lot? The SEC and ITAR both come to mind.
- TameAntelope 5y agoIf you think the ITAR has stopped any math from dropping into "disallowed" hands in any meaningful way, I have a bridge to sell you.
- khuey 5y agoThey don't have to regulate math, they just have to regulate where cryptocurrency touches the "real" financial system which they're actually really good at.
- rsj_hn 5y agoI would assume most diehard bitcoin holders are just fine with no financial system entity touching them. After all, that's what many of them are trying to route around. They want peer-to-peer transactions independent of state actors, and have very little desire to hold BTC in their Fidelity-managed 401K portfolio. Rather it's been the banks that have been clamoring to get a piece of the bitcoin action, not the other way around.