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the problem is largely allowing chinese nationals to extract hard currency past PRC capital controls (any electricity you burn is converted to BTC, and it's easy to bribe a local official to ignore it) and a side of russian mafia transactions (cryptolocker/etc)

there really aren't any significant (legal) north american/european transactions that occur in BTC



Care to cite your sources?




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