Here is the post for archival purposes Author quantom Content Lets say that somehow every government around the world decided to ban exchanges processing BTC transactions , would that effectively mean no one could ever convert BTC to USD ? With the IRS perspective of bitcoin becoming worse , what is stopping the government from criminalizing btc exchanges like coinbase and circle who are based in the states ? Would i have to travel outside of US to an exchange if i wanted to convert BTC to USD ? <| sep |> You might find a bit of people saying one thing in public and doing another in the private confines of the voting station <| sep |> A couple years ago my sister decided that we were all gonna climb a mountain more like a few hour uphill hike nearby , so we decided to camp at the base the morning before . For some reason noone would let me share a tent with them I ' m with family and people I ' ve known most my life it ' s the middle of winter and I ' m sleeping outside with two sleeping bags , it ' s cold . Fast forward a few hours , everyone ' s asleep , my phone ' s dead and I ' m still not tired . I start to hear bells from out in the woods , which is everywhere around us . Just a few jingles from one direction then I ' d hear it from a completely different area . And it was a full moon so I could see almost everything within a 150 m 500 ft and there was nothing that would be making a noise like that . Might not seem that scary but it was pretty fucking terrifying in the moment . Also I saw a giant ass snake on the hike , that was pretty shit .