Not to say it wouldn’t hamper criminal activity though. To say “closing it down” is basically double-speak though.
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If you threaten the average person with jail for participation, the unfortunate reality is most people will willingly opt out. I fucking hate the state, but I'm not at the point yet where I would give my life to fight them on this. Not unless there were millions of people to do the same.
Yeah and I think unlike gold back in the day there are records that could be turned up for 99.9% of people’s bitcoin purchases. That’s why the political side of bitcoin is so important.