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Old 01-17-2018, 10:35 AM   #268
Slava
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Originally Posted by NuclearFart View Post
The current crash is being triggered by fears of global regulation...I guess I'm missing something, but isn't that the innate strength and whole point of a cryptocurrency? How are they going to regulate something that's untraceable?

I guess they could make it illegal on the backend to accept as currency, but I would think that is going to be extremely hard to police when there is nothing tangible linking buyer and sellers.
Sure, if people are actually using this to buy things and transact. But what's being shutdown is the ability to trade the currencies on the various exchanges. I also think that mining is problematic in some places because of the extreme amounts of energy required. So I think in Sichuan province for example, it's been a concern. Truthfully though, I don't follow this very closely, so I might be off-base.
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