The unseen hand of the US government has plenty of tactics against an advisary as is evidenced in the recent announcement by DWOLLA to suspend services to bitcoin businesses and the continued closure of bitcoin business bank accounts.
The banks and dwolla are not closing these accounts because they don't want the businesses.
They are closing these accounts because of increased pressure and scrutiny by their regulators as well at the "reputational risk" of banking a bitcoin business.
see:
Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare by Juan Zarate
http://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare/dp/1610391152For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world. In this gripping story,
he explains in unprecedented detail how a small, dedicated group of officials redefined the Treasury’s role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply financial pressure against America’s enemies.
Ah, but now we are talking about a 'conspiracy'. The most critical segment of society (the 'outer party' to use Orwell's shorthand) has been conditioned to reject anything like that at the hypothesis phase. This effectively short circuits any analysis of a 'conspiracy' before it progresses to a theory or fact phases.
It is undeniable that there is such a thing as a 'conspiracy', but it is only possible when it has been established as a fact through historical analysis. It is exceedingly uncomfortable for most people to entertain the notion of a 'conspiracy' occurring in the present or near past because
believing considering such a thing casts one into a zone of being of either unsound mind or in a despised class of people or both.
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