This was a concern of mine in a previous post.
If the government simply says we don’t like a particular digital currency because we are not able to have the level of transparency we want in regards to money laundering requirements and who is facilitating the transactions, so we are just going to ban it, that could be a detrimental blow to that currency (and in Maidsafe’s case, the network). I think a big question is what options might be available to protect against regulatory risk such as this article details…