U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by 55555 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @08:31PM (#25003980)

Let's not make Trump seem responsible for our incredibly overtly corrupt country. Bill Clinton was a democrat, was president before Trump, and is notorious for his seemingly-corrupt pardons. I'm no history buff so I can't go back further than my own lifespan for further examples but I bet America has been this way for a long, long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controvers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bil...

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Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by jollofricepeas on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:37PM (#25004346)

Ehh, don’t believe every political talking point you hear.

You should read Swiss investigative journalist, Daniel Amman’s King of Oil.

The furor over these pardons including the Marc Rich pardon was 100% political.

Clinton pardoned relatively the same amount of people as previous presidents but with a heavy focus on “leftists.”

Also, Marc Rich had left the US before he started working across trade embargoes and singlehandedly built the OTC oil market. He also worked actively with the US on covert oil sales while being prosecuted by the DOJ.

Read: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Oil

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Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by 55555 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:56AM (#25026144)

I started reading his book but got distracted. Thank you. I'll pick it back up.

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