The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners.

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    6 hours ago

    You can’t buy stuff online with cash. You could potentially buy a visa gift card with crypto though.

    How are you buying the crypto with your cash if you don’t have a bank account though?

    I don’t know how common this is in other countries, but here you can go to just about any grocery store or discount store and buy a Visa gift card with cash. I would argue if you have cash the easiest way to make an online purchase (especially back then) was to buy a Visa gift card at a retail store.

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      2 hours ago

      Ok lol let’s second guess the guy’s teenage decision making when he’s already stated it wasn’t optimal

      Like, this “seemed” like the best thing to do. An essay about how this dude was wrong 16 years ago isn’t interesting.

      You have no idea where he lived, or what was going on, it might be in his neighborhood there was a Bitcoin ATM, or check cashing places cashed to BTC or something. He might have had a wet dream about BTC and that solidified his decision. It doesn’t matter.