[Cryptography] playing lawyer, Incentive Politics

[John Levine]

It appears that Sebastian Stache via cryptography <zeb at qtt.se> said:
>But I do think there is explicit Bitcoin legislation in the EU, the 
>United States, China, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, 
>India and Brazil. The UK regards crypto currency as property. El 
>Salvador and CAR both have adopted Bitcoin as a national currency. An 
>uncomprehensive list and possibly partly erroneous.

I suppose you might be right about El Salvador and the CAR. I do know
that the El Salvado Volcano Bonds that were supposed to invest in
Bitcoin and somehow at the same time fund a non-existent Bitcoin City
didn't sell.

The CAR barely has a government so who knows.

I follow this topic fairly closely and I have never seen any Bitcoin
legislation in Europe or North America. Once again, citations rather
than hand waving would be appreciated. I'm aware of some court cases
that have treated Bitcoin as property, but that's just applying
existing law, nothing special there.

R's,
John