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#1120 Chris Tarbell | Former FBI Agent On Early Bitcoin & Silk Road Takedown

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The Rise of Cryptocurrency Is the Reason for Ransomware Yeah Yeah Yeah Okay So It's Fascinating

The DEA had put in budget requests to go try to purchase Bitcoin so that they then could use it in investigations but everyone's with the Fox Bitcoin like this is crazy whatever. The first time he ever saw kind of the intersection of Bitcoin and law enforcement was they were mining, says Cevallos. "I don't know how true it is or not but it is fascinating"

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