"Keiser believes that Bitcoin users and the currency itself have little to worry about, unlike most of Internet startups feeling themselves suddenly vulnerable to government oversight. Bitcoins are not issued by a central body, and rely on a network of verification nodes to regulate transactions; in the future, Bitcoin users may achieve enough political clout to defend itself in traditional arenas.
“As Bitcoin's price increases, the new Bitcoin millionaires and billionaires will use their economic clout to rewrite laws in favor of Bitcoin, the same way banks like JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs lobby government to write laws that favor them,” he explained."
Lulz, no.
Article 1, Sec 8
"The Congress shall have Power To [blah, blah blah]
[blah, blah blah]
[blah, blah blah]
[blah, blah blah]
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"
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