the possible implications of this are … well … profound.
http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html
sleep well 
Heh. I literally just clicked from that article to this.
Governments will never allow it, I’m afraid. It’s the same problem with the premise of Cryptonomicom.
agree on that, Neal Stephenson’s book was a great read
I love his stuff, but that was the one book that he managed to end successfully.