Quote from: Skkky on April 12, 2013, 10:27 pmThis happens all the time.. Its not only Bitcoins.. Its anything that pulls investors away from the US dollar.. This happened with silver as well. Its kind of obvious, when the jump in price is about 50% in a day or $100. Bitcoins has a lot of enemies, Governments, CIA, Banks, Securities, etc... Its easier to do this, then to pass bills or hack it. All this did was teach us a lesson on the movement of Bitcoins for the future.Funny you should mention the CIA, because we have it on pretty good authority (google In-Q-Tel) that the CIA think Bitcoin is awesome and are very enthusiastic about the whole thing. Remember that they are very interested in analyzing future trends in the fields of technology and finance, so all this certainly fits the bill.It's just the FBI/DEA, some congress members and other LEO that are disturbed by the idea of Bitcoin. Even in some LEO circles, there is a whole bunch of fraud techniques that suddenly stop working if you're using cryptocurrency e.g. chargeback fraud. The other government departments are either mostly neutral or think the concept is fucking cool as hell. That it pisses off the FBI/DEA is just an extra bonus. I think it would be a mistake to imagine that cryptocurrency doesn't have friends, I would even go so far as to say that Darknet markets such as Silk Road have friends in high places, probably not going to go so far as to help us out or anything, but they certainly see the advantage of taking market share away from the violent morons that have reduced so much of America to rubble.I mean it's not as if the government is entirely composed of one giant homogenous monolithic blob of assholes. You were probably just thinking of the Feds.