5/19/2019 - story about bitcoin airs tonight on 60 MINUTES

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-who-spent-millions-worth-of-bitcoin-on-pizza-60-minutes-2019-05-16/

CBS
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Today

One Loose Thread; Rainbow Railroad; Bitcoin's Wild Ride.

An employee at an Estonian branch of a Danish Bank uncovered a $230 billion money-laundering scheme from Russian rubles to U.S. dollars that is probably the largest such case in history;

a Canadian group that has helped hundreds of LGBT people get out of countries where their freedom, their safety and sometimes their lives are at risk;

and the wild financial world of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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60 MINUTES starts in less than 60 minutes!!

[funnyb25]

Hope the pizza was good

[mikejamm]

Thanks for the heads up.

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Thanks for the heads up.

The Bitcoin segment hasn't aired yet, it will be the last story on the show.

[jjgold]

Money laundering

Great another reason for govt to regulate it

[ApricotSinner32]

The government can't regulate crypto.

[KiDBaZkiT]

Who cares about Shitcoin? None of you have even 10% of what you would need to invest to actually make something significant.

[asiagambler]

Who cares about Shitcoin? None of you have even 10% of what you would need to invest to actually make something significant.

That's why people invest in altcoins. Looking for that needle in a haystack that's going to grow a million percent like bitcoin. Fact is, though that 99% of them are just pump and dump schemes with no use and won't be around in 5 years.

[juicername]

Money laundering

Great another reason for govt to regulate it

You do of course realize that the money laundering segment had absolutely nothing to do with bitcoin but USD to rubel...