[ferdo]

> Step 1: make Bitcoin exchanges illegal to operate. There is no Step 2.

Step 2 is moving my Bitcoin business to a country that's not afraid of Bitcoin.

[XorNot]

Thus losing all your customers in a large, well-established 1st world market.

Again: if you can't buy BitCoin in your native currency legally, no one would bother trying to do it except if they had a compelling reason.

[ferdo]

> if you can't buy BitCoin in your native currency legally

My native currency is now Bitcoin. ;)