I see in the tea-leaves Bitcoin used in wide parts of the world, and any association with it, holding it, trading in it criminalized in other parts and heavily persecuted.
Guess which nations would be under which parts?
JZ
=Wikipedia=
On 15 May 2013, the US authorities seized accounts associated with Mt. Gox after discovering that it had not registered as a money transmitter with FinCEN in the US.[32][33]
On 23 June 2013, it was reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881.[34] It is the first time a government agency has claimed to have seized bitcoin.[35][36]
In July 2013 a project begun in Kenya linking Bitcoin with M-Pesa, a popular mobile payments system, in an experiment designed to spur innovative payments in Africa.[37] During the same month the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department in Thailand stated that Bitcoin lacks any legal framework and would therefore be illegal, which effectively banned trading on Bitcoin exchanges in the country.[38][39] According to Vitalik Buterin, a writer for Bitcoin Magazine, "Bitcoin's fate in Thailand may give the electronic currency more credibility in some circles." But he was concerned it didn't bode well for Bitcoin in China.[40]
In August Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are "a currency or a form of money" (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction,[41][42] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed Bitcoins under the term "unit of account"—a financial instrument—though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.[43]
In October 2013 the FBI seized roughly 26,000 BTC from website Silk Road during the arrest of owner William Ulbricht.[44][45][46]
Two companies, Robocoin and Bitcoi
Prices and value history[edit]
This section was taken and translated from http://cs.wikipedia.org/
| Date | price for 1 BTC | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | basically none | no exchanges or market, users were mainly cryptography fans, who sending bitcoins for low or no value |
| Feb 2010 – May 2010 | less than $0,01 | user „laszlo“ did first transaction – bought 2 pizzas for 10.000 BTC.[53][54] User „SmokeTooMuch“ auctioned 10,000 BTC for $50 (cumulatively). No buyer was found[55][56] |
| June 2010 | $0.08 | in 5 days price growth 10 times from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin |
| Feb 2011 – April 2011 | $1 | Bitcoin takes parity with US dollar [57] |
| July 8th 2011 | $31 | top of first "bubble", this first time of price drop |
| Dec 2011 | $2 | minimum after few months |
| Dec 2012 | $13 | slowly rising for a year |
| April 11th 2013 | $266 | top of price rally, where month ago price raise o 5–10% daily. After the top price would slowly go to US$50. After that it grows again. |
| May 2013 | $130 | basically stable, again slowly rising. |
| June 2013 | $100 | on June slowly dropping to $70, on July rising to $110 |
| Nov 2013 | $350 - $600 | from October $150-$200 in November exponentially rising to $400, then $600 |
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