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Another part of the global anti-cybermoney-publicity-campagne that we can see right now starting is a study of the European Central Bank on "Virtual Currency Schemes", Oct. 2012.

Read it: http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes20121...

Edit: BTW, if you are interested in international monetary policy you can find many important publications on the ECB site:

http://www.ecb.int/pub/html/index.en.html

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I suspect you may be overreacting with the tinfoil-hattery. Obviously those institutions like the ECB and the FBI are interested in virtual and new currencies. That's part of their job!

But if you actually read those publications, you'll notice that they aren't very urgent at all. Their stance is basically that they want to keep up with the development, but don't see a reason to act right now.

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