i'mm a say this and leave it be in regards to bitcoin.....
this is a currency exchange system which is illegal in the eyes of government watch dogs. when btc hit it's record there were already court orders in motion hitting Coinbase to give up their clients so they can pursue them on tax evasion.
it's unregulated money laundering plain and simple. and these "exchange companies" will fold on your ass to save themselves. i'm not even saying it will happen in 2018, but that shit will backfire in the worst of ways.
You're wrong. And there's nothing "illegal" in what bitcoin is. It was created as a means of not using the fiat system in place any and everywhere. Was not created for money laundering or criminal activities. Of course some saw it as a means of transactions not being tracked.
But that is the reason it was created in the first place. For the govts all over the world run by Central banks to see everything you do.
Now govts have to create a reset of the monetary systems in place bringing forth their assets to back their currencies.
You can look at all these countries now creating their own crypto currencies. Russia, Venezuela and some others are in the recent news that already started to follow suit.
The govt here will disavow it because it goes against their control, but you can't stop people who are awake from the BS and who bring their own system of exchange which fights the very system which keeps us under a watchful eye.
My only concern is that this rise in value of BTC is actually the weakening of the fiat system we all know.