On the other hand they mention the U.S. Army and NSA are are tracking cryptocurrency users by analyzing transactions, which make the government sound more nefarious and sinister
Unless you're a blockchain analysis expert it is hard or even impossible to determine if yours coins are clean or not. Bitcoin is so mixed that there is no absolutely clean coins (maybe those fresh mined).
Why should US Army tracking cryptocurrency? However NSA is working on bitcoin case at least from 2013 as revealed in the documents released by
Snowden. Even then they have very powerful tools (Xkeyscore, Oakstar, Monkeyrocket) to track bitcoin users, and after 6 years these tools have become even more powerful.
Apparently, the Pentagon and the Government in general is hesitant to hire and give a security clearance to anyone, having a bitcoin or any crytocurrency account. In this article they are describing bitcoin users as Terrorists, Cybercriminals, and Spies. And if your not one of these, and just investing in it, you're just delusional, and therefore not desirable to work in government.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/bitcoin-a-shadowy-realm-as-us-weighs-security-clearances-1.529596So I am wondering...would a bitcoin mixer make a difference? Or send up more red flags? You can't tell who is sending whom money, but the money is missing from your account and going somewhere. And this is what the government in monitoring.
It's an interesting article. The government can't figure out what to do with bit coin, and are or were considering to make a foreign currency.