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I’m sure many people haven’t experienced that kind of censorship but lots of people have. I used to play online poker which was made illegal in the US through payment channel crackdowns(for reasons at best paternalistic but realistically just physical casino lobbying). Given that the internet facilitates pretty much any kind of information transfer I have to ask mysef is it more likely the future will be a future where I can only transfer value by requesting 20th C institutions to proxy for me or is it more likely I will be able to freely transfer value in my own right.


If you're talking about transmitting money, it's a regulated activity in the US. [1] If you think that you will be able to bypass regulations by using crypto-currencies and suffer no consequences, I think you're in for a surprise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_transmitter


Nothing I’m talking about requires me to get licensed to operate a money transmitting company.




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