“OIG Investigators found that the DEA paid one airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over the past several years in proceeds from cash seized as a result of their tips. However, the vast majority of those airport seizures aren’t accompanied by criminal prosecutions. This has led to years of complaints from civil liberties groups that the DEA is abusing civil asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize cash and other property suspected of being connected to criminal activity such as drug trafficking, even if the owner is never arrested or charged with a crime.”
Let me just pay my rent real quick with my monopoly money
Believe it or not there are number of services that you can pay in monero and get a payment in zelle, venmo or a money order.
So no, you’re not paying IN monero, you’re exchanging through a middle man for a real currency, the USD. If the entity you are paying directly isn’t accepting the monopoly money, then it’s not the same thing
Semantics, but if saying it like that makes more sense to you then sure: I use middleman who accepts monopoly Money from me and pays my rent in “real” money for me.
I can pay my mortgage with Monero if I wish.
I bought a house with bitcoin, so…
I’m certain that you sold Bitcoin and paid for a house with cash. You probably used a service like RealOpen designed to make it feel like you’re doing something cool, but the end result is exactly the same unless you deliberately sought out a seller that was willing to receive Bitcoin.
As it turns out, keeping money in the bank and never working with large amounts of cash is sufficient protection from civil asset forfeiture, as they generally can’t just take your accounts from you during a traffic stop or at airport security.