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Comment by josephagoss | Hacker News Reader

Sorry dude, you have several people asking you what country your in and you give no answer. What you said (That Bitcoins are illegal in your country) is complete FUD until you provide some proof.

As far as I am concerned, until you tell us where your country is, it seems your trying to damage namecheap's and /or Bitcoin's reputation for no reason.

Please provide the country and law cited. Cheers.

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My country is in my contact information, I didn't answer because I went to sleep.

This is the law that complete forbids using any currency other than the national for internal commerce and disposes about how forex must work, which bitcoins do not comply.

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/LEIS/L4595.htm

This is a case where people were using dollars to pay for national contracts:

http://jus.com.br/revista/texto/8566/da-impossibilidade-de-p...

Thanks for replying, I can't read the links however I have a question: Is buying a domain from namecheap considered internal commerce? Also many other items bought with Bitcoins would be external to your country.

Surely you can buy a wordpress account with USD without being arrested? What makes buying wordpress / namecheap with Bitcoin any different? Or maybe i'm misunderstanding something. (Honest I probably am missing something, this happens to me a lot :)

Eduardo is from Brazil.

Perhaps he was referring to this?

http://silvervigilante.com/bitcoin-attacked-by-brazils-secur...

Maybe he meant planet ?

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