Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by bookofjoe on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:01AM
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I'm assuming you're wrote this tongue in cheek. Cooper absconded with his bills in 1971 — 54 years ago. Do you really believe that spending one of them today would bring trouble?
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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by rtkwe on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:56PM
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I think there'd be a fair amount of interest though I'm not sure how tightly bills returned for destruction are monitored for known serial numbers like that so I'm not sure if anyone could notice. But if they are I think it'd trigger some interest at least just to figure out where you might have gotten it from.
Anyone know if there's a monitoring program for serial numbers of interest?
Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by bookofjoe on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:11PM
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51.years.ago.
Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by rtkwe on Friday November 14, 2025 @09:42AM
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It's just numbers in a database if they're doing automated scanning, it's basically free to keep an alert around, and if the bills show up new out of nowhere it means there's a decent chance you're relatively close to their original source.
The FBI gets out of bed for more inane things than maybe figuring out what happened to DB Cooper (he probably died during the jump or after landing) after all this time.
Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by echelon_musk on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:13PM
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These arguments suppose there's an FBI agent with a printed list of serial numbers positioned nationwide at every store.
In practice, if you spend less than $10,000 a time, you'd probably be fine?
Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:13AM
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They have the list on computers now.
Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor...
by extraduder_ire on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:29PM
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I should have wrote "will draw attention" rather than "you'll get into trouble". I also mistakenly thought there were already pre-photographed ransom bags by that time, those came later.