What laws were dissed here?
BitCoin exchange pricing on LuxStack is down on this news, but I wouldn’t suspect it will be for long. AUD exchanges are cratering but will likely recover.
This is likely a move by the government at the behest of the central banks. They don’t like the proles doing things for themselves.
I encourage everyone to do some basic research on how BitCoins work before flipping off at the lip. There are plenty of legitimate purposes for BitCoin.
I accept that I’ll never quite understand either the value basis for bitcoins or the governments concern about them.
Yeah...Cultural appropriation...omg...so wrong...
The photo shows the police rolling out a big box of bitcoins. How heavy is $400 million dollars worth of bitcoins?
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Deepnet contacts are saying it’s unlikely to be him and that a far more likely suspect for creator died years ago of a chronic condition, I believe it was MRSA.
THIS incident is being identified as probably a high-roller in bitcoin that the fascist Australian government is bent on shaking down to make an example of someone. Basically they’re after the currency as an untapped tax source. (read: massive theft-by-force opportunity)