'Michael Morell, who served as acting director of the agency o | Privacy & Security Goys

"Michael Morell, who served as acting director of the agency on two separate occasions under President Obama, also sees the value of Bitcoin to the intelligence community.

"Morell called blockchain technology a 'boon for surveillance' in a report, published by the Coinbase- and Square-led Crypto Council for Innovation.

"The report defended the cryptocurrency against claims that its best use case is for criminal enterprise. Instead, the public nature of transactions makes it an 'underutilized forensic tool for governments to identify illicit activity.'"

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