On 11/20/2016 12:54 AM, grarpamp wrote: > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/11/18/2146221/irs-demands-identities-of-all-us-coinbase-traders-over-three-year-period > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/irs-demands-identities-of-all-coinbase-traders-over-two-year-period > https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3222198-Petition-for-Coinbase-Trader-Identities.html > https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/799401350824132608 > https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3222199-Memorandum-in-Support-of-Petition-for-Coinbase.html > > In bitcoin-related investigations, authorities will often follow the > digital trail of an illegal transaction or suspicious user back to a > specific account at a bitcoin trading company. From here, > investigators will likely subpoena the company for records about that > particular user, so they can then properly identify the person > suspected of a crime. The Internal Revenue Service, however, has taken > a different approach. Instead of asking for data relating to specific > individuals suspected of a crime, it has demanded bitcoin trading site > Coinbase to provide the identities of all of the firm's U.S. customers > who made transactions over a three year period, because there is a > chance they are avoiding paying taxes on their bitcoin reserves.
Some people jus' gotta learn OpSec that hard way, I guess :( <SNIP>