[tomjen3]

Not likely - they simply don't understand it at all. P2P? Cryptocurrency?, hash collisions?, proof of work?, public private key encryption?

By the time they have gotten around to see this as anything worth wasting time on, bitcoins have either court on or have completely disappeared (most likely the latter, sadly).

To mutilate a phrase Congress is not webscale, threats cannot be discovered, assessed and lobbied about fast enough to out-compete technology. And technology isn't going to get any slower.

[iwwr]

They do employ masses of quants, though, who can chew through this sort thing quite easily.