I was not expecting Tea-Party-Guy to have anything good to say, but his analysis of Bitcoin is both brutally honest and accurate. At some point in time - a poi

I was not expecting Tea-Party-Guy to have anything good to say, but his analysis of Bitcoin is both brutally honest and accurate. At some point in time - a point in time which is probably in the past - the government is going to lock a cryptographer and a forensic accountant in a room together and tell them to develop a tool to unroll bitcoin networks. They will (have) done so. The tool will, given a couple of known transactions, create a graph of every activity ever that is in any way related to those transactions. Each known transaction or account added in will fill in the graph further. A handy printout will correlate all the intersections between graph 1 and graph 2 for any two individuals the government wants to link together. "Says here on November 3rd you sent another $7,500 to the opium dealer from Hong Kong. What were you buying?" "On the advice of my lawyer, I refuse to answer." The first people the federal government decides to take down who have used bitcoin in their financial shenanigans are going to be facing 1000-count indictments and 500-year prison terms.