"This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable..." A bit old info...
Damn. I was using Bitcoin to fund my Shemale porn fetish by purchasing subscriptions anonymously. Or at least, I thought they were anonymous. I guess I'll have to resort to just watching vanilla stuff like Lyn Alden from now on. Thanks for the heads up ajacobson!
I think law enforcement purposefully didn't acknowledge just how easy it is to follow the "money". That is why the DoJ made a deal with Tether. And almost any brokerage will rat you out at the sign of a subpoena. Stupid criminals bought into the anonymous bullshit, what crypto fans were peddling back in the early 2010s... The article is really good though and it is a summary of an upcoming book. Thus the "news"...
You're spot on, but try telling that to the native indian senator and her anti-crypto army that keeps gaslighting the public to protect the banksters crypto assets especially bitcoin is used in 0.00002% of criminal activities vs fiat aided by banks, HSBC, JP Morgan, and others, everyone knows it that's why they paid hundreds of billions of $ in fines without admitting guilt of course
I wonder, how many billionaires were hiding from taxes using crypto instead of fiat instruments in the Panama papers? Hmm...
This thread proves that Bitcoin is very bad for criminals, money launderers, sex traffickers, terrorists