Chinese Officials Hoped CoinJoin Would Hide Bitcoin Bribes
Two Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with obstructing a US federal investigation by paying bitcoin bribes worth $61,000
and
Chinese Spies Used Wasabi Wallet Mixer to Pay Bitcoin Bribes to FBI Double Agent
Intelligence agencies have long been known to use cryptoassets to make payments.
yes... and this statement,
The same properties of digital assets that make them attractive to criminals – such as censorship resistance, pseudonymity and the ease with which they can be transferred across borders – also make them valuable tools for all intelligence agencies looking to fund clandestine operations.
is more truthfully inverted into,
The same properties of digital assets that make them attractive to all intelligence agencies looking to fund clandestine operations – such as censorship resistance, pseudonymity and the ease with which they can be transferred across borders – also make them valuable tools for criminals.
Your protection is not a priority.
isn't BTC a really stupid crypto to use for any secret activity, given its UTXO protocol keeps a history attached to each txn? hence the churners, but even so, they obviously don't work given enough firepower and malice.
Monero & Pirate coin are a couple of truly anonymous crypto alternatives... 🖖
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Uncaused Events = News
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Tbills are USD - the problem is that their prices fluctuate with interest rates.
The Fed surely loves stablecoins as by aping fiat they are soaking up USD.
Tether is how they been playing Bitcoins price for years ... Not a fan of "Stable". It's synonymous with Fiat.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR9Lo9Vx/
right - "disruption" doesn't exactly spring to mind - more like "accommodation".
bingo
All the way 🥓
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