• FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying before the U.S. Senate discussing Bitcoin on November 7, 2019 (screenshot via C-SPAN).
    FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying before the U.S. Senate discussing Bitcoin on November 7, 2019 (screenshot via C-SPAN).
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    FBI director passes on calling for cryptocurrency tracking law

    Christopher Wray avoided Mitt Romney’s question about tracking Bitcoin, turning instead to the need for messaging service ‘back doors’

    November 8, 2019 /

    FBI Director Christopher Wray declined to swing at a gentle pitch over the plate for more regulation of cryptocurrency anonymity at a recent Senate Homeland Security hearing.

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    Feds track Bitcoin to break up child porn ring

    The huge child pornography ring was among the first to use Bitcoin to fund its illicit operation, the U.S. Attorney said; more than one million bitcoin addresses found

    October 16, 2019 /

    Federal prosecutors said that they successfully back-traced Bitcoin transactions to break up a major child pornography ring.

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