U. S. Government Siezes Bitcoin's Bank Account

[arlean]

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/u-s-freezes-accounts-of-world-s-leading-bitcoin-exchange/article_cd5a4356-9724-541b-b129-d18aedb421ca.html

 

[scotttswan]

Bwahahahahahahahah

 

[sleslie23]

Where oh where are our Butt Coin friends?

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Wasn´t worth the bytes it was written on.

 

[Jaredberryman]

Replace it with ... "The Argentine Government..." and I might have almost believed it...

 

[PaulBee]

I feel badly for the Bitcoin people and I wonder that the real criminals aren´t the supposed money launderers, but the governments.

 

[Sleuth]

The Feds are cracking down on Mt Gox, not Bitcoin

It’s important to note here that Homeland Security is not cracking down on Bitcoin itself, just on how it’s being exchanged by Mt. Gox. This is actually good news for Mt. Gox’s US-based competitors, such as Seattle-based CoinLab and San Francisco-based Coinbase, Bitcoin exchanges that have registered with the Treasury Department as money transmitters and thus are in the legal clear to conduct Bitcoin <—> $ exchanges.