X @Nick Szabo

RT Ian A. Northon (@ocean_lawyer)Most "lawyers" in the bitcoin spoace are paper warriors who specialize in SEC and securities nonsense. Try polling any serious trial attorney (state or federal) or prosecutor and you'll get a far different result and risk profile. I'd put the status quo risk at <1% (non-zero but very low). This risk is at least 10-20x higher if Bitcoin opens the door to file-storage as proposed by v30. ...