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Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by jarin on Monday November 18, 2013 @06:41PM (#6758136)
The FBI and CIA can use Bitcoin to anonymously pay off foreign informants though
Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by TomGullen on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:10PM (#6758280)
We'd see them spend it and ask what they've spent it on.
Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by saraid216 on Monday November 18, 2013 @08:01PM (#6758500)
I'd expect the CIA to know how to launder money competently. It seems like a ridiculously obvious thing for them to learn how to do.
Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by Karunamon on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:31PM (#6758356)
Given bitcoin's current quasi-legal status, I don't think they'd be under any obligation to answer that question until the coins become legal tender
Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by baddox on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:32AM (#6759622)
And they would say "none of your business."
Re:Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video] by maxerickson on Monday November 18, 2013 @06:56PM (#6758211)
Do you think that possibility translates into enthusiasm in the Senate?