Quote from: ashour on September 01, 2015, 08:27:51 PM

Quote from: Linuld on September 01, 2015, 02:27:35 PM

Quote from: Yerm on August 28, 2015, 09:43:52 PM

i doubt the government is spending the money and resources just to spy on regular people and watching what they do with bitcoin.

Why not? It's pretty interesting and easy for them. I mean they don't have it that easy with fiat. They can't follow it around so easy but they can follow bitcoins.

An i think they know bitcoins potential. They would be stupid not to take care. In fact i know they are not stupid since, i believe gavin did that, some years ago he held a meeting with the CIA that wanted to get informed about that new currency. Surely they will track.

And you say they don't care about the normal user. Why not? It is so easy and so few data... and if it is easy then they will observe it. Just in case.

If they will use that data to blame you against IRS, that is doubtable.

Most of these agencies work isn't to spy ordinary citizens, they try to spy other agencies and governments so the USA can have the upper hand.

That's right for sure but since edward snowden's revelations we know that the nsa is collecting data from everyone in a really big scale. And it is not that they have to spend much work or time on it. They have computer and software and practically everything goes automatically.

So yes, they spy other agencies and governments but on the way... without much manual effort, they collect data about us all.