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In May, the bill S.1241 (archive) was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Chuck Grassley, a Republican Senator from Iowa. The bill, if enacted, would call upon the Department of Homeland Security to develop
a strategy to interdict and detect prepaid access devices, digital currencies, or other similar instruments, at border crossings and other ports of entry for the United States
According to a story at btcmanager.com (square brackets in original),
the bill would "criminalize [those] intentionally concealing ownership or control of a [digital currency or digital exchange] account.
The Senate held a meeting about the bill on November 28. Witnesses included Charles Davidson of the Kleptocracy Initiative of the Hudson Institute conservative think tank; Douglas Farah of IBI Consultants, which specializes in "issues of national security, transnational crime, terrorism, terror finance and non-state armed actors"; and Kathryn Haun Rodriguez of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange. Ms. Haun, however, made no mention of cryptocurrency in her testimony (PDF).
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday December 05 2017, @09:01PM (3 children)
Who is "we"?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 05 2017, @09:14PM (2 children)
Us? Or at least the editors. Who wrote that Grassley was a Democrat? Who called out the error? What was the original source? Do not see it in the linked article.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday December 05 2017, @09:24PM (1 child)
Try clicking on Original Submission.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:01PM
So we are just going to blame the AC Original Submitter? Fake news, I say! There is, or at least has been, a definite tendency of Fox News to call Republicans doing unpopular things "Democrat". I think it is a Karl Rove strategy from back in the day.