The IRS has tried to become more sophisticated in tracking alleged Bitcoin financial crimes.
DOJ announced criminal tax fraud charges against a prolific Bitcoin investor named Roger Ver, who came to be known as"Bitcoin Jesus" for getting in early on the digital currency and making a fortune.Ver was arrested in Spain over the weekend and is being extradited to the United States to face criminal trial.claims that Ver executed the fraud scheme by failing to report a portion of the 131,000 Bitcoin that he owned in 2014, when he renounced his U.S.
According to the indictment, the IRS used a strategy called"clustering analysis" to track the blockchain and identify Ver's Bitcoin transactions.
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