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Crypto caselaw is becoming more prosaic as the law catches up to tech that is becoming mainstream.
Zietke v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist LEXIS 204274 (D. Wash., 11/25/2019) is a recent federal court case involving an IRS summons sees the court grappling with Fourth Amendment protections for bitcoin transaction records held on an exchange
The Court holds that bitcoin records are more like bank records than cell phone records and declines to extend Fourth Amendment protections to them
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