PANews reported on March 29 that according to Tobacco Online, the Liuzhou Tobacco Monopoly Bureau in Guangxi cooperated with the public security department to successfully eradicate a criminal gang that used the virtual currency Tether (USDT) for illegal tobacco transactions. It is reported that the "Virtual Currency Cigarette Transaction Situation Awareness System" of the Liuzhou Tobacco Joint Command Data Center obtains virtual currency flow data by building blockchain nodes to synchronize the entire chain ledger, and cooperates with the public security department to accurately arrest 12 local suspects involved in the case in Liuzhou, and seized 84,400 illegal cigarettes, involving a virtual currency transaction volume of 28,625 Tether coins.