Bitcoin anonymity no longer guaranteed; summons served to U.S. exchange
Bitcoin’s veil of privacy for 3 million Coinbase customers has been threatened. It may be torn down completely as a result of a summons authorized Wednesday by a federal judge. The Internal Revenue Service is seeking customer identity and 2014 to 2015 transaction records from Coinbase, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S. The summons is characterized as “the largest single attempt to identify tax evaders using virtual currency to date,”reports Gizmodo....