Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering

tsu doh nimh writes "State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal businesses moving large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency. Experts say this is likely the first case in which Bitcoin vendors have been prosecuted under state anti-money laundering laws, and that prosecutions like these could shut down one of the last remaining avenues for purchasing Bitcoins anonymously."

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Bigger crime here

[Anonymous Coward]

The bigger crime here is slashdot beta. Even worse than the "Business Intelligence" dashboard.

Re:Bigger crime here

[cshark]

It is awful.

Florida arrests Dice for rolling out BETA!

[foobar bazbot]

Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet. (Copy-paste the html from here so links don't get mangled!)

On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott

Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
  http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

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Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=56395415

Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3321441

Alternative Slashdot: http://altslashdot.org (thanks Okian Warrior (537106))

Yeah

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck BETA and the horse it rode in on.

Re:Yeah

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck BETA Fuck BETA Fuck BETA

Go ahead, waste mod points on me you BETA fanboys !!

Re:So he agreed to be part of an illegal scheme?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet. (Copy-paste the html from here so links don't get mangled!)

On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott

Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
  http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

-----=====##### LINKS #####=====-----

Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=56395415

Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3321441

Alternative Slashdot: http://altslashdot.org (thanks Okian Warrior (537106))

Am I the only person that likes Beta?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the dawn of bulletin boards, operators have been besieged by faithful users every single time the interface was overhauled. Yet nearly as many times, within a few months of the new interface nobody can even imagine those dark, dark days of being forced to use the prior one.

You need to embrace the future to continue to be a part of it. Sometimes you even need to get a step or two ahead of it. Beta represents movement in that direction, and on reflection could probably use a few additional enhancements to appeal to a new user base:

• It's vital that it works on mobile, but to truly attract the cellphone audience it should emit satisfying audio responses to user input or delay.
• There is a distinct lack of video, and for a website to really pop these days it should begin playing any streaming content the instant you load a page (that's why you're there, right?)
• Huffington Post gave users badges and highlights for... fuck if I know, but they sold for $315 million. Make some badges.
• Make bulleted lists work again.

It's like peeling off an exceptionally large bandaid. You should do it fast, without complaint, and maybe with the help of a few friends. Things will be back to normal before you know it.

Re:Am I the only person that likes Beta?

[maxwell demon]

Make bulleted lists work again.

Dice won't give us bullets, for fearing that they'll end up in the heads of those who decided to create beta. ;-)

Re:Am I the only person that likes Beta?

[maliqua]

if that what you want then use every other site on the fucking internet thats not what we want here
we want content density, comments and minimal javascript

i have to assume you work in the DICE marketing or web design department because i can't imagine anyone else who uses this site spouting crap like that.

Bitcoins are the future. Betacoins are here!

[gridzilla]

We are Dice. Lower your standards and surrender your community. We will add all your story submissions and any associated posts to BETA. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Re:So he agreed to be part of an illegal scheme?

[PopeRatzo]

Governor Scott, you really shouldn't be on the Internet when you've been drinking.

The people of Florida have enough problems without their governor trolling again.