allegations of bitcoin being used for untraceable money laundering
allegations of bitcoin being used for untraceable money laundering
Posted Jan 17, 2018 22:49 UTC (Wed) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)In reply to: allegations of bitcoin being used for untraceable money laundering by edgewood
Parent article: Welcome to 2018
Gold is totally opaque to x-rays, which is very unusual, so it appears completely black on airport scanners. Thus, I hope you're not flying to/from the US, lest you end up dealing with TSA agents of the same breed that held up a guy for bringing his Nobel Prize medal through.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/us...
> ‘What’s it made out of?’ I said, ‘gold.’ And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’ ‘The King of Sweden.’
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