THELOGICALINDIAN - Based on the acknowledged antecedence surrounding cryptographic advice it is awful absurd that the US government can ban bitcoin
‘Uncle Sam’ Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin
With the storm of attention actuality paid to Facebook’s Libra project, there has been some allocution of whether such absorption could discharge over to BTC in the anatomy of a government-sanctioned bitcoin ban.
On Tuesday (July 16, 2019), redditor ‘MarsWalker69’ opened a thread on the Bitcoin subreddit gluttonous affidavit why the U.S. government can ban bitcoin.
In response, adolescent redditor ‘nowitsalllgone’ provided acknowledged antecedence to appearance why a BTC ban wouldn’t be possible.
For starters, there is acknowledged antecedent that equates the prohibition of cryptographic advice as affiliated to an contravention on chargeless accent beneath the First Amendment.
As a computer protocol, Bitcoin represents a algebraic language, which is no altered from animal languages like English or French, in the eyes of the courts.
However, Bitcoin is added than an accustomed computer protocol, in that it allows amount alteration beyond a network. This accurate appropriate brings up the banking apparatus bend which adverse governments agog on assuming a ban could exploit.
In the case of the U.S, activity through such a avenue would additionally not work. This is because the advantage accustomed from the alteration of advice is additionally adequate beneath abandon of accent — one of the bristles basal freedoms anointed in the First Amendment.
So, while projects like Libra can accept Congressional hearings with the blackmail of arty bans, such a book appears awful absurd for bitcoin.
A Ban is Unnecessary
Places like China and India accommodate bright affirmation that bitcoin bans are counterproductive to the calendar of the government. The market alone goes underground because prohibitions don’t assignment unless the bodies are in agreement.
Even bodies in government like Congressman Patrick McHenry accept that a ban would be useless. In an account with CNBC McHenry declared that there is no accommodation to annihilate bitcoin.
Commenting added on the matter, the Congressman from North Carolina said:
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