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Topic: FBI intelligence assessment of Bitcoin (from 2012) (Read 926 times)

legendary
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Anarchy is not chaos.
It's always hilarious when any organization talks about how Bitcoin can be used for illicit activity.  The U.S. dollar is still the biggest medium of exchange for illicit activity on the globe and yet no one writes articles talking about the need to control it.

Really?

Ever hear of a couple little organizations called The Federal Reserve and the Senate Committee on Finance? Or the MANY protocols affecting banks and money transfers? Such as the BS they used to snipe at Mt. Gox?

I think the writing on that is so ubiquitous that you filtered it out.
legendary
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It's always hilarious when any organization talks about how Bitcoin can be used for illicit activity.  The U.S. dollar is still the biggest medium of exchange for illicit activity on the globe and yet no one writes articles talking about the need to control it.

Actually it doesn't say that, "need to control it." 

It's more like directions on "how do we deal with this?"
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It's always hilarious when any organization talks about how Bitcoin can be used for illicit activity.  The U.S. dollar is still the biggest medium of exchange for illicit activity on the globe and yet no one writes articles talking about the need to control it.
sr. member
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Uhh... No comment..

 Huh

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And that's why they but I into the FBI.
sr. member
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And that's why they but I into the FBI.
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Now they are thinking what to do with me
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/05/Bitcoin-FBI.pdf

edit: I just realised it's from 2012, still, an interesting read to see their perspective from last year.
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