DHS

my-man-fred

He's trying to steal your wallets identity. May not matter to Sheriff Buford T. Justice in your county, Interpol and DHS might take a fancy later. Block him.

watch_my_fingers

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riversaint101

I disagree. You can’t underestimate the FBI CIA IRS or for that matter DHS which has the largest budget at 1.4 trillion. They can start or stop anything they want with tactics you could never imagine.

guccidaglacier

Federal law enforcement agencies (DHS, FBI, ATF, etc.) have not relegated enforcement of federal drug crimes to the states bro. Not sure how you could even think that. Do you know how federal law enforcement even works? I can’t even believe you’re saying almost none lol. Go to any federal district’s website and you will see many examples of people being charged with firearm charges simply because they owned a firearm and were being arrested for a federal drug crime. The feds do it to enhance federal drug offenders prison sentences. Tons of casual drug dealers. Not kingpins or huge drug dealers. We’re not talking about state law enforcement in any way so not sure what you’re even talking about a blue state going after guns. It’s part of the federal government carrying out a war on guns.

BlockMeReddit

I mean damn, if DHS said it, it must be true, and there is NOTHING that could speed that time line up, right? It's not like it was the absolute main focal point and driving force of his campaign? Damn, he's so unlucky to not gave been able to build a wall whilst being President of the largest and most powerful country on the planet.

Dinaek

I point you back to this line from my comment: >The estimation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated it would take 3.5 years to build.

Dinaek

Yes. This is how the United States federal government works. Funding must be obtained, which Democrats tried their hardest to block - including [shutting down the government for the longest period of time ever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_United_States_federal_government_shutdown) to do so. Finally, funding was obtained and construction began in 2018. Biden halted construction on January 20, 2021. The estimation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated it would take 3.5 years to build.

Mental-Hornet-4055

Lol tell me you have no idea what you’re talking about without telling me you have no idea what you’re talking about…… SN is alive, just ask DHS.

xomox2012

Mixers in general are not IRS proof. If he is talking about something like a privacy coin such as monero, the DHS has tools to trace those as well. At this point there isn’t a fool proof way to be untraceable. All that said and it still wouldn’t matter if you did manage to get it to a wallet not linked to you, you’d still have to prove income/payment sources to validate the existence of your stuff in the case of an audit.

FistyFisticuffs

No, that's not what I'm saying. It's not a binary choice for anyone but the parties involved. You don't need to go bat for the SEC just because you don't trust an exchange. There are a ton of issues that have two distinct sides at odds with each other that involve two parties acting out of different theories of malice. Just because you don't like one doesn't mean you must necessarily support the other and go all in. Just because I hate fascism doesn't mean I'm running over to join the communists if this was Weimar Germany and 100 years ago. You can watch Aliens v. Predator and not find affinity with either - the tagline is "whoever wins we lose", after all. Just because the SEC is calling someone out does not make them any more virtuous of an institution, they just happen to take a position that outwardly align with your interests for a hot second. I haven't used an exchange since Binance closed access - but not the existence - of my account in a manner that is both illegal and creates a civil claim. At this point the exchange have stolen easily low to mid six digits in terms of dollars from me. Am I pissed off about Binance? Of course. But the DOJ is no more about justice or my property or my rights, having spent the better part of a decade in practice defending clients against them. I know full well that I'm not getting my money back. Likewise, the SEC is not here to help you, me, or anyone else. It's an institution and consituency onto itself that jealously guards their own rights and authorities. Their regulations are made for the benefit of the agency and the agency's authority. Unless you are a part of that constituency, do you really believe that somehow they are acting out of the goodness of their heart when they've continuously acted in a manner that not just bends but deliberately misinterprets laws that set and constrain their power in order to exercise more of it? Institutions are first and foremost seeking to preserve their own power and to benefit those who they consider among the in-group. They are not altruistic, and they don't disestablish when they no longer serve the purpose outlined in their mandate. They regulate in their own image, not yours. Feel free to read the responses to concerns raised by stakeholders for notice and commentary for just about any agency on regulations.gov and you will quickly find that one can comment, but agencies don't have any obligation to actually take those comments into consideration in making their decisions and sometimes offer contradictory ways to dismiss concerns raised. They are no more accountable than those they seek to regulate. And I guess I need to explain what I thought was obvious: administrative law practitioners are not complaining about their specific cases in public, nobody does, but they do complain about gratuitous, unreasonable, and generally shitty practices that are also not subject to judicial review. i worked mostly against DHS but guys who worked against the SEC had some of the exact same issues, just without the guns and outright violence associated with DHS. The SEC operates in a manner that keeps its authority as broad as possible and also, for a non-national-security agency, FOIA requests to the SEC have long been known to be akin to pulling teeth, which makes a mockery of transparency for an agency that purports to protect investors because it begs the question "how" and then stonewalls for reasons that are never made clear. Lawyers are okay with losing to a certain extent but when decisions and made and enforced in a manner that fails to explain the rationale and basis or offers plainly unreasonable or ridiculous rationale, that's when they complain, and in the statutory realm one frequently sees the pretzel-like rationale offered by prosecution or the bench but in admin law, the problem is frequently stonewalling followed by 'because we said so' or its equivalent. The SEC is generally subject to the APA like all federal agencies except the independence of its Inspector General, who is not chosen independently by the president but instead, selected internally. This means that there's no process of senate confirmation (although that has been made a farce by the last admin anyway, it wasn't always that way, but the SEC had never been subject to any checks on its self-policing efforts). This effectively creates the problem where there's no real accountability as to the proper use of its discretionary enforcement powers and when they look the other way. DHS probably is the most notorious agency in terms of engaging in outrageous conduct, and the DoD is also well known for lack of candor and transparency when it comes to contracting and such, but the SEC amongst all agencies that don't have its own private army is likely the agency that offers up the least amount of transparency, scrutiny, or explanation as to why and how they reach their conclusions and conduct their investigations. Since DHS and DOD aren't subject to capture - they work with but do not regulate entire industries - while the SEC is subject to capture and does regulate industries, regulatory capture is not merely a concern but [there are plenty of reports](https://www.pogo.org/investigations/captured-financial-regulator-at-risk) that [more or less point to exactly that](https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5353&context=gc_etds). And one really should be asking, as I'm sure crypto exchanges have been asking, if the SEC enforcement actions are actually meant to protect investors, or simply a result of the crypto industry, being relatively new and decentralized compared to banking and accounting, simply haven't lobbied enough, in which case there would be plenty of money for that to be set aside. Either way, while no agency should be given blind faith, and the SEC certainly is not anywhere close to the level of depraved corruption that DHS and its subagencies have devolved into or, as I worked against them during both the Obama and Trump admins, have existed in, you or anyone else should absolutely not take the SEC's word at face value. After all, they haven't been able to protect investors at so many junctures in recent history and there remains so much ambiguity in their practices that I don't think they deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point as a good faith actor. Why should you?

FistyFisticuffs

[The SEC is quite literally the last party to lose to a nonlawyer pro se petitioner in front of the Supreme Court](https://newrepublic.com/article/158088/mr-sloan-went-washington). The Supreme Court no longer allows nonlawyer pro se petitioners these days, but the SEC's conduct on the merits and the actions of its counsel in the case was, well, frankly, disgraceful, but also unsurprising. I worked at a public interest firm that represented indigent or close-to-indigent clients in administrative law cases and the only agency that throws its weight around with a level of gratuitous entitlement is, well, DHS. Except DHS has guns and detention facilities and it's easy, if not justifiable, to see why they get away with a lot of things congress should exercise oversight over - since the PATRIOT Act they're essentially a paramilitary agency that operates mostly outside of the justice system with little oversight. The SEC, on the other hand, is less about outright menace but has more of a Wall Street on the Potomac vibe. It's not a secret that their relationship with Wall Street is somewhere between chummy and incestuous and have simply brushed off adverse decisions from circuit courts and the Supreme Court year after year. I don't know why they deserve any sort of benefit of doubt, not in 1976, not now. But administrative law practitioners and in house counsel saying 'fuck the SEC' is hardly a rare sentiment to be heard at happy hours in DC and NYC at certain drinking establishments, and not just because we have an adversarial system but because some agencies take their mandate more seriously than others and the SEC is certainly not among them. I don't think one should be necessarily excited to invest in a target of SEC's actions, but as long as it's not a bank, it's... not exactly dispositive of anything in terms of merits to their complaint. I don't know what you think the poster above you deserves exactly, but the SEC certainly would be expecting a response in that vein as well. It's kind of how business is done with them. It'd be weird to simply roll over on a regulator that nobody, not even their own IG, can claim to assiduously play by the rules - rules that they made and enforce themselves by the way, based on their reading of century old black letter law and amendments designed to be vague so that the agency can fill in the gaps as they see fit. This is pretty much just how they operate and the response is pretty much as expected.

jt7855

It shouldn’t matter, but DHS wants to know. Just in case you are a possible terrorist. KYC wasn’t a real thing until after the Patriot Act. Funny how whenever we hear the name of a bill it usually means the opposite.

Mental-Hornet-4055

It obviously wasn’t Hal for a plethora of reasons including him not having the worst case of schizophrenia in human history. That’s what it would have taken for him to carry on those conversations for years. DHS and some of the original cyberpunks know exactly who Satoshi is, they met for a meeting several years ago in California. It’s unclear if we’ll ever be definitively informed who SN is, but, my suspicion is grounded in relentless research and while I won’t say who I believe it is, logic and facts exclude Hal as a possibility.

maynardstaint

There is a video of a US department of homeland security agent, her name is Rana Saoud She explains that homeland security went to visit “satoshi” to find out how Btc works. She then goes on to say that DHS met with the FOUR satoshis, and they were given a through understanding of the protocol. It was shortly after this that “SATOSHI” was never heard from again.

FistyFisticuffs

[Code IS in fact protected speech under the First Amendment.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech). Broadly speaking, you can publish malicious code and it would be protected by the First Amendment, and in fact at least in the US, you are free to charge money for the code you publish, even if it can be used for malicious purposes. Code is not law (and how people can see that statement as anything but an amusing pun is beyond me), but there are similarities: legislatures can debate, write (or have lobbyists write) and then pass into law any unconstitutional law but unless someone is actually affected by the enforcement of the law, if the law is actually enforced or attempted to be enforced, [congress can simply leave bold chapter names that are clearly discriminatory and violate the constitution if it had substance](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/chapter-7) and sit on it for 115 years and counting. The same applies to miscegenation laws that were never repealed after Loving v. Virginia, and there are still sodomy-related statutes that are plainly unconstitutional if they are enforced in any manner, except they aren't. However, it would be a different story if you used the code to actually attack infrastructure. The particulars of any case would depend on the facts in addition to the law. I'm sure a good deal of people involved in cyberattacks used Windows or MacOS as the basis for their actions, but Microsoft isn't selling "Windows: Criminal Edition" on hackforums. If you market your product in executable form as a tool for criminal purposes, the state would have a much better shot, albeit not an 100% shot as it depends on, once again, the facts and context, in arguing that instead of mere expression, you are actively a part of a criminal conspiracy. The problem was that the government essentially backtracked in their statements since the initial pronouncement on what is plainly both unenforceable and patently ridiculous. In fact, even today, it's still not clear what and under what theory of law the sanctions are actually targeted. After all, the code itself on github is firmly in the 1st Amendment space. Because the blockchain makes the contract simultaneously existing in hundreds of thousands of copies without the node owners being able to selectively make it unavailable, and there's neither a permissioned "gate" or an off switch, effectively making the code self-executing without the deployer having any say in it, the sanction appears to be sanctioning... a piece of deployed code. Sanctioning an inanimate piece of computer code is as ridiculous as it sounds. At this point, the government had clarified that it sanctions the interaction of a US person and the contract (but this is likely still unenforceable, because of the attribution issue that came up in the BitcoinFog case that crypto-literate criminal defense attorneys have known for quite some time), but it remains ambiguous as to whether the restriction is on the particular deployment on this particular chain or something broader. The fact that the government even decided to clarify means that they can make clarifications, which makes their lack of proper outlining of boundaries even more maddening to lawyers and chilling to developers. Would you violate the sanction if you fork the chain and then interact with the contract? Frankly, we don't know. A district court have granted summary judgment on a civil case against the designation, but much of the decision hinges on the degree of deference the court is bound to give to OFAC in anything related to national security that it essentially was handcuffed by precedent to take OFAC's definition at face value. The court giving administrative agencies the benefit of the doubt is incredibly common and even without the added level of deference in a national security case, the government generally prevails on definitional questions especially in the lower courts. The inability of the last administration in following esoteric but extremely favorable directions aside, it's not difficult at all for an agency, OFAC or DHS or Treasury or whatever, to act as judge, jury, and executioner in one go as long as they follow the exact procedures outlined under the APA. That doesn't necessarily mean a higher court would view the facts and the law in the same manner, especially when OFAC relied on defining a DAO as an "organization" that's sanctionable because owning TORN tokens is analogous to holders of stock in a company, except that analogy contradicts the court's other analogy that the contract is like a vending machine, although 80+% of users using the service were making shielded transactions to earn TORN tokens. Vending machines don't distribute interest to its users, or part of its revenue. But I don't know why the downvotes, your concern is valid and in fact, at the heart of the court's analysis under American law. [The criminal matter involving the devs were unsealed recently and for a federal criminal matter it is surprisingly weak](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.604937/gov.uscourts.nysd.604937.1.0.pdf), speaking from experience defending federal criminal matters. The feds have effectively an unlimited budget, unlimited time to conduct an investigation, and broad latitude from literally bribing witnesses ("jailhouse snitches") to create deliberate game theory set pieces to pit defendants against each other. Instead, what they came up with was 8/37 pages of background that is mostly irrelevant, which they are entitled to do (charging documents are allowed inadmissible evidence, and no defense lawyer have ever seen an indictment/information that isn't embellished or mistaken in stating the facts), states as fact that Eth is currency as a matter of fact (then why does the IRS insist that it should be taxed otherwise?) and that TORN tokens have pre-determined value at launch (it did not, the value came from AMMs not operated by the defendants)., and with those as priors, attempts to portray relayers (an idea that predates TC) as nefarious, and in the end... **The strongest case the government could make was for conspiracy (two or more people make an agreement + overt act in furtherance) between the two operators of the front end for money laundering and operating without a money transmitter license, based on the continued payment of hosting fees being the overt act, and conspiracy to evade sanctions (which was walked back 2 months after the issuance)**. The federal defenders are extremely competent (as in, if you are not a lawyer, you should go with a federal defender instead of private counsel for cases that might go to trial, since guess who does the most federal trials? Yep, them). More facts will come out and some evidence will be suppressed, but the feds once did a 4 year sting to get my client on possessing 4 Oxy pills so... this is not a great start for the feds, although we'll see what happens, I guess.

igadjeed

> an unnamed DHS agent A non-existent DHS agent

GordanGarTrail

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ad3htYjZHO0&pp=ygUkUmFuYSBzYW91ZCBob21lbGFuZCBzZWN1cml0eSBiaXRjb2lu In 2019, at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit, Rana Saoud, Assistant Special Agent In Charge at Department of Homeland Security, stated an unnamed DHS agent went to interview Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of #Bitcoin, only to discover there were 4 Satoshi's.

iflyaurplane

Isn't there a video of DHS saying they met with "the 4 Satoshis"?

somethingimadeup

Make sure you know them well though because the IRS/DHS is looking for these things regularly.

Ballsdeepinya3000

BTC will be the most epic rug pull in history ever period, there will be nothing like it. I’m saying this because BTC was created by the NSA and the DHS has met with not one but “ The 4 satoshi’s”.

BrotherAmazing

Oh, and forget you can’t fly commercially (FAA, DHS, etc highly subsidized by tax money) unless you want to pay double or maybe even triple the cost for a ticket.

maynardstaint

It’s everywhere. You’ve already heard most of it. And yet you did not believe it. 1. The nsa wrote the Btc hash code. https://supraoracles.com/academy/the-nsa-and-bitcoin-origins-of-the-sha-256-hashing-algorithm/# 2. The department of homeland security visited “satoshi” just before they went silent. DHE knows who the satoshis are. They claim there are four of them. I retweeted the video of the DHS agent Rana Saoud detailing her story. My Twitter is @jacked_lanterns 3. Ethgate is real. Eth is funded by Shanghai wangShang blockchain group. Through the Hashkey company. Same people who funded Prometheum, the company Gensler gave a bit licence to, even though they don’t actually have a single product listed for sale. Vitalik buterin is the chief science officer of this Chinese blockchain company. I wonder who developed Shiba inu, and “gifted” it to Vitalik? He profited what? 80 million? I know he burned lots, gave a lot away. But also sold some for himself. Interesting investigation to follow up. The Hinman emails clearly show that the SEC did NOT believe xrp was a security. They said so directly. They told bill hinman NOT to include “decentralized “ in the speech, as it has no basis in law. It is literally a made up term so that they could have a hurdle you could never pass. They told him that this would increase the amount of confusion in the market, and he did it anyway. And he directly spoke with vitalik buterin to “confirm” the decentralized nature of ethereum. 4. This hidden knowledge about Btc, and the fact that everyone and their auntie knows that the eth ICO was, is , and always will be a securities offering, are the last cards the SEC has to play. If they want to keep wrecking the market, they sue eth. And then they release the identity of “satoshi” or even just awaken the dormant wallet and sell 100,000 Btc. That would shake the market to its core. And everything would dump, and run to the one asset with legal clarity.

Brainhol

EPA, FDA, FDIC, IRS, NASA, SEC, ATF, CIA, DEA, DHS, DOJ, FBI, ICE, FEMA, NSA, TSA. This is why Sesame Street teaches the alphabet.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is intensifying its efforts to combat the flow of fentanyl into the United States by targeting the cryptocurrency used by Mexican drug cartels, according to officials. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the agency aims to hold individuals accountable, seize their assets, and disrupt their financial operations. Fentanyl, the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, is primarily produced in China and then trafficked by cartels from Mexico into the US. The Biden administration is currently negotiating with China to halt the production of fentanyl precursor chemicals. DHS has already seized over 10,000 pounds of fentanyl and made 284 arrests in the first two months of its intensified campaign. The next phase of the strategy involves targeting high-ranking cartel members involved in fentanyl trafficking by increasing manpower and using forensic accounting to trace cryptocurrency transactions. Customs and Border Protection is also enhancing its ability to prevent pill presses, commonly used in Mexico, from entering the US. Families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl overdose are calling for more action from the Biden administration. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

ethereal3xp

>The Department of Homeland Security has ramped up its effort to stop fentanyl and the chemicals used to make it from entering the U.S. by tracing cryptocurrency used by Mexican cartels, according to two U.S. officials involved in the strategy. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told NBC News in an interview at the International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Thursday that DHS “is seeking to hold individuals accountable, seizing their property and also interdicting and interrupting their financial flow.”

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is intensifying its efforts to combat the entry of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals into the United States by tracing cryptocurrency used by Mexican cartels, according to U.S. officials. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the agency aims to hold individuals accountable, seize their property, and disrupt their financial flow. Fentanyl production poses a challenge as the necessary chemicals are primarily produced in China and shipped to Mexico, where cartels manufacture the drug and smuggle it across the U.S. border. Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, claiming over 70,000 lives annually. The Biden administration is negotiating with China to halt the production of fentanyl precursors. DHS has increased pressure on Mexico to curb fentanyl manufacturing and distribution. In the first two months of the enhanced campaign, Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations seized over 10,000 pounds of fentanyl and made 284 arrests. The next phase of the strategy involves targeting high-ranking cartel members involved in fentanyl trafficking by bolstering manpower and using forensic accounting to trace cryptocurrency used to purchase precursor chemicals. Customs and Border Protection is also enhancing its ability to track pill presses, which are often used in Mexico to produce counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. Families affected by fentanyl overdoses are calling for more action from the Biden administration and urging empathy towards those struggling with addiction. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

247drip

Good to hear but do you have any idea how minuscule an amount 1-3mm is for the US government? DHS typically has an annual budget of ~50Bn so an allocation of 3.6mm represents **0.0072%** of annual spending. For context, if you spend $100k per year personally, this would be like allocating $7.20. Good that Monero didn’t crack for that but they are not really trying

3utt5lut

After DHS took their cut, only $480k in assets is left.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; US law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, DHS, IRS' Criminal Investigation Unit, and federal prosecutors, have formed a new task force called the "Darknet Marketplace and Digital Currency Crimes Task Force" to combat crypto-related crimes on the dark web. The task force will initially focus on Arizona, where crypto has become a popular means of funding illegal activities. The move comes as criminals increasingly use crypto assets to trade drugs, firearms, and other illicit products and services. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

Michaelwaisjr

Absolutely not. It’s gravely serious. The DHS has been notified and there shall be a motorcade. ‘Tis no laughing matter at all. A History Channel documentary shall be made about That Dude’s Great Ice Cream Place That Had The Ice Cream That One Time.

3utt5lut

Ah okay so it's a full-power rogue enforcement agency, similar to DHS/DEA, except semi-privately funded by the US Treasury. So essentially they are self-funded through their own corruption? If that doesn't scare anyone, I don't know what will?

McBurger

1.2 billion dollars is not a drop in the ocean. Yes, it is a tiny fraction of overall revenues and GDP. But it is, no matter how you slice it, a lot of cash. A brand new Ford-class aircraft carrier is about 12 billion. The entire DHS discretionary budget for 2023 is 56 billion. 1.2 billion can buy a lot of things. It can build large facilities, it can build infrastructure, it can fund monetary relief programs. Yes it’s small compared to the overall budget, but it’s a lot of money.