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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 28 2018, @08:41AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 28 2018, @08:41AM (#659407) Journal

    What if I told you "using wallets once" was one of the patterns they'd be looking for when trying to detect laundering...

    And?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:17AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:17AM (#659420) Homepage
    Nothing, don't worry about it, if you want to wear a ronnie reagan latex mask whenever you go to a bank that's just fine.
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:28AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:28AM (#659449) Journal
      One way they looked for subs in the Second World War was to look for torpedo trails. That didn't make it easy to find the subs.