Stealing the top comment:
See what’s sad is that there could be real national security reasons for the FBI/DOJ actions, but because the pattern lately has been un-uniformed randos detaining people in the streets (and then disappearing them), I’m fresh out of benefits of the doubt for the government here.
If they’re the subject of a criminal investigation, say so. If they’re not, then explain why nobody has heard from these people in seemingly weeks. Are they green card holders? US citizens?
The Nazis historically did go after universities and professors. If you ever take a class on Heidegger, it’s overshadowed by his membership in the party, and the fact he participated in carrying out the parties policy - firing all Jewish professors, including his friend Hussarl.
Colleges are places where ideas compete, and fascism cannot compete as an idea but only through force. The crypto angle might be part of this case, but we’ve already seen Florida and Texas trying to set up their own controlled university systems - fucking with colleges and professors is on the table.
Going to guess they are in China.
FBI? It’s an espionage case.
Does the FBI still investigate crimes? I thought they all got sent to help ICE and investigate college kids.
Looks like they found Satoshi Nakamoto and now Hegseth is gonna beat him with a sock fulla quarters til he gives Trump “all the bitcoins”
The US government has known who Nakamoto was since like 2017
It’s probably Adam Back.
All the claims of who it might potentially be have been debunked one way or another. Someone was sure it was a Canadian guy not too long ago and he started getting harassed…
Huh, another good reason for sticking with physical money. You can’t beat someone with a sock full of bitcoin.
I’m not so sure. I’d take a sock full of quarters over a sock with a 3.5" spinning disc hard drive in it any day of the week.
