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> wow I am really surprised this was triggered by cryptocurrency. this is terribly authoritarian and disappointing. It is authoritarian and disappointing, but
by Kalium 9y ago
> wow I am really surprised this was triggered by cryptocurrency. this is terribly authoritarian and disappointing.
It is authoritarian and disappointing, but to me unsurprising. The cryptocurrency world associates pretty hard with drug trafficking. Coupling that with someone choosing a train over what might be an easier flight could be read as avoiding TSA.
The low security of Amtrak likely makes it a common smuggling route.
- jMyles 9y agoI surmise that it has less to do with trafficking and more to do with simply whom they think will have money to steal. Perhaps that's the cynic in me talking, but to read the available coverage of this phenomenon, it certainly seems to be more about highway robbery than anything to do with drugs or weapons.
- solotronics 9y agoI would be surprised if even 0.1% of drug trafficking is done with cryptocurrency. The big banks have been caught red handed doing industrial scale money laundering for cartels and producers.
- Kalium 9y agoI would be very similarly surprised! And indeed, big banks have been and are very guilty of aiding and abetting. Yet, I would also be very surprised if the percent of actual cryptocurrency usage that is legitimate even begins to rival that of typical currencies. And I may have missed the connection, but I fear I do not see how the illegal behavior of several large banks bears on the use of cryptocurrencies in narcotic markets.