this writing has been on the wall for a while, but I reminded you of this fact two weeks ago...,
Logical outcomes from this?
1. FBI/NSA just shut down the #1 biggest hosting site and #1 most wanted person on Tor
2. Silkroad is next on their list, being the #2 most wanted (#1 was Child Porn, #2 is drugs)
3. Bitcoin and all crypto currenecies set to absolutely CRASH as a result since the feds can not completely control this currency as they please.
I don't always call the Feds agenda transparent, but when i do, I say they can be trying harder.
Once you grok the fact that the bankster $$ system is the ultimate technology for governance and control, then you can easily understand why they're fitna loosen up their 80 year weed prohibition (cause people will transact for weed in traceable dollars and schmoking is likely to blunt a little bit of the riotous reaction to continuing economic contraction and malaise). Genuine anonymization and well-established virtual currencies are a response to the ever-tightening grip of the "top which lives off the yield of the bottom." Matter fact, they're the only pure genius games in progress at this moment in time - and constitute a genuine and growing threat to unilateral top-down governance and the system of 1% global supremacy. (psychedelics do too, but they'll be easy enough to track and monitor as they'll be an epiphenomenal component of the larger ebb and flow of legalized weed)
NYTimes | State and federal officials are starting broad investigations into
shortcomings in the oversight of upstart virtual currencies like
bitcoin.
The Senate’s committee on homeland security sent a letter this week
to the major financial regulators and law enforcement agencies asking
about the “threats and risks related to virtual currency.” These
currencies, whose popularity has grown in recent years, are often used
in online transactions that are not monitored by traditional financial
institutions.
“This is something that is clearly not going away, and it demands a
whole government response,” said a person involved in the Senate
committee’s investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
because the inquiry is continuing.
The Senate letter went out the same day that New York’s top financial
regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, sent subpoenas to 22 companies that have
had some involvement with bitcoin, according to a person briefed on the
investigation.
Previously, there have been isolated efforts to crack down on those
who took advantage of virtual currencies. But the two investigations
made public this week appear to be the most wide-ranging government
efforts to exert more coordinated control over what has been a largely
faceless and borderless phenomenon.
Bitcoin, the most well-known digital currency, was started by
anonymous Japanese computer programmers in 2009 and was intended to
serve as an alternative to national currencies. Only a limited number of
bitcoins can be created. And an online community has bid up the price
of individual bitcoins, which are stored digitally on a decentralized
network of computers. On Tuesday, a bitcoin was being sold for about
$108 online.
Lawmakers are worried that bitcoin and other alternative forms of
money can be used to evade taxes, defraud investors and assist trade in
illegal products like drugs and pornography.
