Bitcoin Battleships
Bitcoin has been identified by the US Navy as a force for supreme evil, it has emerged. A Broad Agency Announcement project for Navy Engineering Logistics Office of the Department of the Navy is currently being bid for by interested parties. Among the parts of the project appear these two sections: “R3861 Counter Threat Finance” and “R3830 Methods and Means to Systematically Discern and Display ‘Precursors of Instability’ In the Dark Web.” Quite a mouthful, but the message is serious, for among the ‘keywords’ mentioned in the brief is “Bitcoin.”
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