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		mrb on April 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin falls from $266 You are wrong. Gold is very often used by drug cartels for their laundering operations: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/nyregion/drug-money-launde... http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/mexico-cartels-steal... "Mexican authorities say that, since 2008, criminal gangs have robbed so many trucks carrying gold shipments that some mining companies have been forced to switch to aerial transportation"

smartwater on April 11, 2013 [–]

I don't really understand what stealing trucks full of gold has to do with any of this. He said that the US is "totally fine with side markets that they cannot control directly" and that "Your other argument also fails to convince me that the government would want to declare Bitcoin illegal." and I have to agree.

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