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		IanCal on April 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As Big Investors Emerge, Bitcoin Gets Ready for it... There's a large difference between regulating/controlling the currency and regulating exchanges. You don't have to have the former to have the latter.

rayiner on April 11, 2013 [–]

Sure, but a lot of our financial regulations are implemented as regulations on exchanges and banks (and as far as I can tell, Mt. Gox functions a bit like both...)

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