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ww520 on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lead bitcoin developer invited into CIA headquarte...

CIA would be a big user of bitcoins. There are a few operations that they don't want the money to be traced.

michaelchisari on April 28, 2011 | [–]

Which is the interesting push and pull of our government. While the CIA would love to be able to launder money through a system such as this, the FBI are probably fuming over how much more difficult their job will become because of it.

antihero on April 28, 2011 | [–]

Didn't Tor start out as a project for spies to communicate?

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