If the citizens of that country really want to push Bitcoin as a currency they really need to sacrifice the anonymity of Bitcoin and it is by regulation. The government can control and monitor Bitcoin transactions by associating their citizens with their designated Bitcoin wallet address. With this method I see that crimes would be harder to commit from online theft to money laundering all addresses will be associated to a person as long as that address belongs to its citizens. Making this possible is if course having their own local wallet provider that is provided by their government.
Even if that is the case, it would still be easy for anyone to create a wallet on other means and not by using those local wallets unless they will enforce their citizens to use it. Another method that might solve the problem at hand generally is to make exchanges more regulated and what I mean by it that they force all exchanges in existence to compy with it. That being said, I think it is impossible in its own way since it will be hard to do that if many countries would not take action. 
Topic: Reasonable Regulation for Bitcoin and Cryptos (Read 166 times)
If the citizens of that country really want to push Bitcoin as a currency they really need to sacrifice the anonymity of Bitcoin and it is by regulation. The government can control and monitor Bitcoin transactions by associating their citizens with their designated Bitcoin wallet address. With this method I see that crimes would be harder to commit from online theft to money laundering all addresses will be associated to a person as long as that address belongs to its citizens. Making this possible is if course having their own local wallet provider that is provided by their government.
Alright. So this topic might be controversial.
It is clear that the philosophy underlying bitcoin of being a currency for P2P transactions without the need for a central authority goes counter to traditional governance mechanism, and thus regulations in general.
However, the criticism put forward against bitcoin (and the crypto universe), of supporting tax evasion, money laundring, and payments for criminal activities are fair and cannot be simply talked away. Indeed, I strongly believe that this "feature" of bitcoin also is it's achilles heel and prevents more serious, mainstream adoption in the real economy.
Whereas nation states think about regulation only from the perspective of their own jurisdictions, and those regulations with regards to bitcoin are mostly black-and-white (allow / don't allow), or force regulation on "exit points" from the bitcoin network (in particular exchanges), I wonder whether it would be possible to introduce another form of "regulation" which is more reasonable and more aligned to the way bitcoin operates.
How could for instance a (system specific) self-regulating mechanism be implemented either on the technology level, or at the process level in order to avoid tax evasion and criminal activities?
Or are there means to combine self-declaration and incentives, similar to gaining bitcoins when solving crypto-puzzles in mining?
Or how about a supra-national, self-governed organization as practiced for instance in open-source projects that in one way or another could address terrorist and criminal financing?
I don't have answer myself, but am wondering what views are out there and whether we, as a community, could come up with something that national regulators fail to solve but want to address.
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It is clear that the philosophy underlying bitcoin of being a currency for P2P transactions without the need for a central authority goes counter to traditional governance mechanism, and thus regulations in general.
However, the criticism put forward against bitcoin (and the crypto universe), of supporting tax evasion, money laundring, and payments for criminal activities are fair and cannot be simply talked away. Indeed, I strongly believe that this "feature" of bitcoin also is it's achilles heel and prevents more serious, mainstream adoption in the real economy.
Whereas nation states think about regulation only from the perspective of their own jurisdictions, and those regulations with regards to bitcoin are mostly black-and-white (allow / don't allow), or force regulation on "exit points" from the bitcoin network (in particular exchanges), I wonder whether it would be possible to introduce another form of "regulation" which is more reasonable and more aligned to the way bitcoin operates.
How could for instance a (system specific) self-regulating mechanism be implemented either on the technology level, or at the process level in order to avoid tax evasion and criminal activities?
Or are there means to combine self-declaration and incentives, similar to gaining bitcoins when solving crypto-puzzles in mining?
Or how about a supra-national, self-governed organization as practiced for instance in open-source projects that in one way or another could address terrorist and criminal financing?
I don't have answer myself, but am wondering what views are out there and whether we, as a community, could come up with something that national regulators fail to solve but want to address.
(If you like my post, just click +Merit on the right. It will be appreciated)
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