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Obviously this is a stepping stone towards pushing for harder legislation against anonymous online transactions.

That is why this is blowning up that strong in mainstream media which unquestionable accepts the idea that all the over 1m users are just money launderers.

My guess is that current legislation is not strong enough to bring Bitcoin down and cases like these help to propagate the only-pedophiles-and-terrorists-want-anonymity meme.



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