CoinDesk's Regulation Sentiment Survey
Are you for it, or against it? It's no secret that the bitcoin community can be divided when it comes to the topic of regulation - some believe it's necessary to bring bitcoin to the mainstream and others believe that bitcoin was built specifically to circumvent regulation. To get a better idea of where the industry stands as a whole, CoinDesk wants to hear directly from our readers about how they view bitcoin regulation around the world.
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