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Without further delay, here's our second part interview with Jim Rickards.

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So let's just say that we fast forward a year or two years in advance.

Let's say Bitcoin has another big resurgence and another big price movement.

At this point, let's say the US government or any other major economy says, this is enough.

We're going to shut this down.

I personally feel that you've had so much entrenchment into the finance industry at that point.

I mean, we now have the CME with the rivetives wrapped around this.

We're potentially going to have ETF vehicles now that the derivatives are in place that are

then going to be wrapped around this.

We're going to have options that are then wrapped around the ETF vehicles and everything else.

So don't you kind of feel like the longer that the government doesn't make a decision on this,

the harder it's going to be for them to actually shut it down.

What's your thoughts on that?

I think the decisions already have been made.

I mean, it's interesting to have a article, but the decision has already been made in the fact that

Bitcoin's way off the top, as such as the price has dropped 70% which it has,

but the volume's have dropped.

So you're not seeing the transaction volume.

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