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You appear to be from Brazil, in which case you're flat out wrong. Bitcoins are not illegal in Brazil, or in any other country that I'm aware of. The government securities commission in Brazil recently suspended operations of a Brazil-based Bitcoin investment company ("Grupo de Investimento Bitcoin") that they said was an investment company operating without government approval, but that's a far cry from barring Bitcoin.


http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/LEIS/L4595.htm

Yes, they are. Any currency other than the national currency cannot be used for commerce.

This is a case where people were using dollars to pay for national contracts:

http://jus.com.br/revista/texto/8566/da-impossibilidade-de-p...

The only kind of parallel currency that is acceptable under the law are called 'social currencies' which are just food stamps.




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