What p!$$es me off is that the same people who let the banksters ruin wall st. and then gave them our tax money to make up their losses now want to protect us from bitcoin. The fraud committed by banks is staggering. They destroyed the lives of countless people and greatly, perhaps permanently, hurt the U.S.
Not a single person responsible for this mess is ever going to jail. Even the ones who got fired received golden parachutes to land on their 500 acer island estates. It is a stain on the legitimacy of us financial regulators.
Protect me from bitcoin? Pfft, right. I will secure my own future without you, indeed in spite of you.
... and HSBC launders USD 100's of billions for mexican drug cartels (obviously knowing that these aren't just mexican tortilla vendors) and is still doing business in the US like nothing ever happened: No fund seizures, no one is prosecuted and the bank is deemed "too big to prosecute" by the ever evasive Mr. Holder.
Meanwhile, the entire bitcoin market capitalization is approximately $1B - yet the DHS is seizing funds from a non-US based exchange for a possible non-compliance issue. Remember, bitcoin wasn't even recognized as requiring compliance at the time the "false statements" were made by MtGox.
