[ale] [OT] (but computer and cryptography related) Bitcoin, Litecoin

[Pete Hardie]

Sounds about right for the amount of possible harm each business could do.

Pete Hardie
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Jason van Gumster <
jason at handturkeystudios.com> wrote:

>
> Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Many states and municipalities have "licensing" requirements for a
> > variety of businesses. Some can be justified but many are methods to
> > restrict entry in a field and generate money for the government
>
> And often times, they're almost depressingly funny. I don't know if it's
> still
> the case, but there's a county where I used to live in Virginia that only
> required business licenses for two kinds of businesses: junk yards and
> fortune
> tellers. The licensing fee for running a junk yard was a mere $0.75 (yes,
> seventy-five cents). For fortune tellers, however, the fee was two orders
> of
> magnitude higher at $75.
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