The FBI declared what they actually think about Bitcoin
First of all the FBI have closed Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service. After this, the feds closed the Silk Road, an underground website of illegal drugs that accepted only BTC, and arrested the owner of Silk Road. Bitcoin is the most-coveted decentralized digital currency, and at the moment the federals are really thinking a lot of this next generation virtual currency. On Monday US Senate will hold hearings on the Bitcoin and other digital currencies case. More precisely, the hearings will be hold in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and....
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