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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-cause-you're-paranoid... dept.

The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

Internet paranoiacs drawn to Bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, Bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable - while also offering discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money moves, would, some of Bitcoin's fierce advocates believed, naturally try and thwart the coming techno-libertarian financial order.

It turns out the conspiracy theorists were onto something.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by OrugTor on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:07PM

    by OrugTor (5147) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:07PM (#659025)

    Conspiracy theorists are right the way the community of stock pickers are right. Between them they pick every stock. However, stock pickers are generally considered sane.

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