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

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Is the FBI Owning Bitcoin?

The FBI owns 100% of Bitcoin. The agency has over 14,000 agents in the U.S., which is a lot for law enforcement but not much if you're like essentially monitoring the globe. There's an intelligent side and there's the criminal side as well so it's kind of crazy all right see you guys start mining Bitcoin yep are you mining a lot? No I don't even know where those bitcoins are they're on some hard drive sitting on a shelf somewhere It's probably on the 22nd floor in New York office somewhere he says.

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