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stacksatsio | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 If the US tries to 6102 Bitcoin they won’t bother with Plebs, they’ll go straight for MicroStrategy and Saylor.

He better start looking at which country he can buy with all that corn.
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Hazey | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Maybe that's the plan all along
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to be decided | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 > .. they won't bother with Plebs ..

What makes you think that?

Outlawing Bitcoin holdings for regular citizens would be a heavy blow and IMO massively set back adoption.

IMO the people who're arguing: "But there's no (easy) way for governments to enforce/seize."

Regular citizens usually don't want to be doing illegal stuff, regardless of how easy it is for the government to enforce.

Just making it illegal - even if they can't immediately identify all violations - will give them a legal lever on everyone who might sometime later be identified.

I think regular citizens are not only important in this issue, they're key. My current view is that Bitcoin only has a chance if regular citizens have (enough) Bitcoin and will thus vote against 6012 policies/politicians.
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to be decided | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Forgot part of a sentence:

> IMO the people who're arguing: "But there's no (easy) way for governments to enforce/seize."

... are making a weak point.

Because citizens don't want to be doing illegal stuff ..