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Actually once the Government severely limits crypto-currencies for the protection of the American people we might find the next tech haven to be outside the USA.

How can the next Silicon Valley be in the USA when one of the major new paradigms in the tech world will soon be entirely banned?

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The USA is basically accepting Bitcoins and the like as legitimate currency, with the recent FINCEN guidance and with the various positive results in the courts. I would be more worried about the EU banning BTC than the USA, because of all the issues the Eurozone is having financially, as part of a general effort to prop up the Euro currency and the many failed Eurozone banks.

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