Different governments have taken different stances on Bitcoin. For example, Bangladesh has outlawed it and Germany considers it “private money.”
Within the US, different states have different standpoints, as each state possesses respective laws.
Japan has decided to take an interesting stance on it.Mt Gox, which was based in Japan, went bankrupt in February 2014, reportedly losing some 850,000 bitcoins (332,100,000 USD as of today). This was the first time most Japanese people heard about Bitcoin. […]