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the US government probably won't make it illegal to possess BTC, but it will never accept e.g. tax payments in BTC also, the instant there is a non-trivial amo
by preseinger 3y ago
the US government probably won't make it illegal to possess BTC, but it will never accept e.g. tax payments in BTC
also, the instant there is a non-trivial amount of commerce conducted in US jurisdictions via BTC, you will immediately see aggressive counter-measures (lawsuits, criminal charges, etc.) from the federal government
germany's minister of finance said it succinctly when there was this facebook libra thing going around
> One of the core activities of a sovereign State is to issue a currency. We will not cede this task to private companies.
https://gpil.jura.uni-bonn.de/2019/10/germany-opposes-facebooks-libra-currency-on-grounds-of-state-sovereignty/ https://gpil.jura.uni-bonn.de/2019/10/germany-opposes-facebo...