[cdiddy2]

I am fairly sure there would be constitutional issues with banning it. After all its just some characters/a string. We went through a lot of this with the cryptography wars in the 90s

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

The law is not a computer system. Illegal numbers[0] are a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

[oneoff786]

Even if that were true, the government need only block the exchanges which are a financial service.

[oconnore]

Bitcoin clearly qualifies as "interstate commerce".

[Spivak]

Something something color of your bits. And even if you somehow managed to convince someone that a digital asset was speech you still have to contend that commercial speech isn't as protected.