This is not an issue confined only to Bitcoin Barclays suspends currency traders but it does raise an interesting thought.
Money manipulation and stock market influencing are illegal pretty much world wide so if there were such a practice going on I wonder why the authorities such as SFO (Serious Fraud Office UK) are not investigating it. Maybe they still think Bitcoins is funny money? ;-)
The amounts involved seem serious to us, but may just be an expense claim for your average politician. I see at least the Inland Revenue is considering Bitcoin. It's a whole new can of worms for them
I hate doing this as it ruins the comments thread. How can I discuss something I've seen on Steemit privately with you? I think I've come across someone telling porky pies. It's not life threatening by the way.
You can reach me via Google chat as before. People here tend to use the Steemit chat site. If we use busy.org with our Steemit accounts then they have private chat there
On busy.org now