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Yup. Remember, it wasn't the police who got Capone, it was the IRS.

• cinquemb 9y ago
  So the IRS is going to put the same amount of resources into each of the new mini - Capones as they did Capone?
  • pavlov 9y ago
    Capone's transactions were not recorded on a globally distributed immutable ledger.
    • cinquemb 9y ago
      Ahh yes, with a 100% provable 1-to-1 mapping to all US citizen illegal transactions.
  • saalweachter 9y ago
    That is literally the IRS's job. IRS funding at the margin directly increases or decreases tax revenues, because they have more or less resources to spend pursuing tax evasion.
    • cinquemb 9y ago
      Well if they contract out the chain analytics work to the most connected firms, I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that russian hackers are the ones behind helping americans launder their bitcoins/ether… Maybe Equifax has some engineers working on this right now for them!
    • jandrese 9y ago
      Luckily the IRS has been kneecapped by Congress because they started looking into the finances of some sketchy looking conservative nonprofits. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-facts/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fact...