a) highly doubt that TBH, at least for the last 18 months.
But is this based on anything at all or nothing whatsoever? Is it more of a "I don't believe black swans exist in Australia, in spite of me never having been there, on the grounds that all the swans I ever saw here in England were white and none even slightly gray", or is it more of a "I heard reports of black swans, but I've investigated the various places and could find none"?
b) it doesn't matter at all what I believe. it just matters how it is handled and regulated. handling and regulating it as a commodity/property would be one of the more stupid options.
You are basically arguing that "handling" whatever that means and regulation are going to follow the smart path or avoid the stupid options? Through what thought process exactly do you come to this conclusion? It's not supported historically, or by any sort of mechanism I can think of.
Other than that, regulation is irrelevant in this discussion. We are talking about what Bitcoins
are. If for instance some government comes forth with regulation requiring water to be viewed as an alcohol this won't at all change the fact that water is an oxide. It will maintain the properties of oxides (such as inflammability) and not acquire the properties of alcohols.
More narrowly, in the discussion of
title, which is a term of art,
nobody has any title to any Bitcoin. The working of titles does not change with regulation.
a) it's an "I look at the sheer volume traded on the exchanges" since, say, beginning of this year. since OTC-volume is recorded exactly nowhere, it's safe to assume (imho) that it's lower. you prove me wrong. o shit, that's not what you do, you just spout insults and light straw men for arguments.
b) again, please read carefully. stop lighting straw men. it doesnt matter at all what bitcoin IS and what it is not, since obviously perceptions of this change according to the use bitcoin is put forward to. what does matter, however, is how bitcoin is handled and it does of course matter very much how it is regulated. regulation relies on a very narrow set of views upon one certain matter. this very narrow set of views turns into one very narrow set of laws. of the many things bitcoin could thus be oversimplified into being, "digital property" is the one that makes the least sense for the furthering of the acceptance of bitcoin, consequently its success.
regulation will not follow the smart path (backing the fuck off). but that doesn't mean that we in this forum should further these fucktarded views by encouraging a decrepit attempt to define it.