While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Steven T. Mnuchin, secretary of the treasury, in an interview with the Consumer News and Business Channel says,

       We’re going to make sure that [B]itcoin doesn’t become the equivalent of Swiss-numbered bank accounts, which were obviously a risk to the financial system. … I want to be careful that anybody who’s using [B]itcoin—regardless of what the price is—is using it for proper purposes and not illicit purposes.

       [restored 5/24/2023] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.