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Government Interference With Bitcoin Is Growing

By Adam Sharp on April 16, 2021

In Washington’s latest round of sanctions against Russia, the U.S. government targeted specific bitcoin addresses. Here’s an excerpt from Bitcoin Magazine’s reporting.  “…the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), recently announced sweeping sanctions to curb the work of Russian online influence outfit the Internet Research Agency (IRA). This included adding several bitcoin addresses…