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Bitcoin Crackdown? US laws choke digital cashflow anonymity

US federal prosecutors have shut down digital payment system Liberal Reserve - sparking fears the growing cyber-currency known as Bitcoin could be next. RT's Katie Pilbeam looks at the implications.

The Feds Just Seized Another Bitcoin Site

Business Insider,

5 June, 2013

The domain of Bitcoin exchange wm-centre has been shut down by the government (as first observed by BitcoinByte and FT’s Stephen Foley).

Here’s what you’ll see right now if you go to http://www.wm-centre.com/index.html:

We’re waiting for a statement from the Southern District of New York.

This comes on the heels of the feds shutting down Liberty Reserve, the charges against which contained language seemingly directed at all other digital currencies, including Bitcoin.