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

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

Jack Torrance writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:05PM (#659095)

    soylent can be sort of slow with the approval process for the articles. we often discuss last weeks technology a few weeks later.