Throughout the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It's going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in the months and years ahead. We have to be prepared.
As Rick Falkvinge, author of Swarmwise, states, “The copyright monopoly war had not been the war, it was the tutorial mission. The Web generation is utilizing technology to assert its values and its place in society, the old industrial generation is pushing back hard versus irrelevance. Things are about to get much worse.”
It is an outstanding analogy. Legal tender is essentially an unearned copyright benefit over the manufacturing of money. It is not likely to be easily disrupted.Continue reading at CoinDesk CoinDesk