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December 03, 2014, 12:52:05 AM
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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/r-australia-probes-bitcoin-crime-links-as-currency-craves-legitimacy-2014-12

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organised crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business.

The investigation into bitcoin’s crime links by one authority as others embrace it highlights the crossroads governments have reached as they struggle to regulate the five-year-old “cryptocurrency” a method of making anonymous payments which has surged in popularity around the world.

Lets discuss their "struggle".


to say something like this is like saying "A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating Ether’s role in Cocaine crime's" Bitcoin itself does not play a role in crimes, There is nothing in the Bitcoin Protocol that makes Bitcoins commit crimes or be willingly part of a crime. Bitcoin is not posting the illegal adds to sell drugs, Bitcoins are not buying the drugs themselves. To word things this way is like taking a gun to court for murder.
newbie
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December 03, 2014, 12:13:26 AM
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legendary
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December 03, 2014, 12:03:39 AM
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well in comparison to lets say detroit in america..

bitcoin crimes are smaller across the world than in comparison to one city in the world.

think of bitcoin like the dollar, can be used for good and bad.. but most people will se it for good. after all with all the internet surveillance and ISP's storing customers data, internet currency is not as anonymous as handing bank notes to each other.
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December 02, 2014, 11:47:30 PM
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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/r-australia-probes-bitcoin-crime-links-as-currency-craves-legitimacy-2014-12

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organised crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business.

The investigation into bitcoin’s crime links by one authority as others embrace it highlights the crossroads governments have reached as they struggle to regulate the five-year-old “cryptocurrency” a method of making anonymous payments which has surged in popularity around the world.

Lets discuss their "struggle".
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