Yes I agree with you. All this crap, ISIS and Al Qaeda are western country creations. Mostly American creations. These western countries will never admit this though and they will always try to find another things or people to make them guilty.
I am afraid and I have a little fear that they will make a scapegoat out of Bitcoin. Just like this reportage that we are discussing here and that mentioned Bitcoin as one of the sources of funding. The things start like this!
Topic: Bitcoin - one of the Terrorists Funding Sources - page 2. (Read 4941 times)
Bitcoin runs under the internet, so I guess it's time to end with the internet too lol. This makes no sense, of course that terrorists will use whatever new tools that arise with technology, but it's to go against progress trying to ruin it for the people that make a good use out of them, they should ban cash first.
Besides, we all know the CIA funds ISIS.
Whoaa, that is quite a bold statement to make on a public forum. Do you have any source documents as proof of
that?
Please read this recently declassified Pentagon document: http://bit.ly/1DntmiA
It shows that the U.S. intentionally armed Al-qaeda groups in Syria for the purpose of overthrowing the Assad government.
Equally bad, government officials knew this action would lead to an Islamic State in Syria. In other words...
They knew it would cause the rise of what we now know as ISIS!
It’s long been suspected that the U.S. armed and trained ISIS forces. Now we have the smoking gun.
We can say that Bitcoin is mainly use(ober 90%) for illegal activities. This is the truth. Terrorists , ponzies, drug dealers, illegal forex, illegal exchange companies(not licensed) and many others are the real Bitcoin. Withoth these, BTC value will be near zero.
The other part(speculators) is negligible.
lies..
you say over 90% is illegal..
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
ok i bet you can only name maybe 1, 10, 100 illegal services...
ok well try naming 100 illegal services and ill show you 100,000 LEGAL services.
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ok i cant wait for you to list the limp and shrivelled list of black markets.. so ill just tell you to go to bitpay/coinbase and see that they have 100,000 businesses
accepting bitcoin..
have a nice day
A few day ago I also seen a spread on the BBC that claimed that the recent terrorist activity was funded with bitcoin. According to the spread, the EU was going to have a closed door discussion to ascertain the extant of the funding activity and to figure out what to do about it. They never did a follow up report on the issue though....so I didn't hear what they came up with behind those closed door meetings.
I just can't believe as saying this about bitcoin. Just like anyother currency if it is accessible to the public, terrorist can use it. Let's not lay blame on one source of their funding. I am pretty sure they have fiat being mailed to their headquarters using snail mail too.
Besides, we all know the CIA funds ISIS.
Whoaa, that is quite a bold statement to make on a public forum. Do you have any source documents as proof of
that? I doubt if the CIA will fund a terrorist organization to kill their own people. Why would they want to do that?
It is more likely that ISIS is getting funding from extremist supporters from within 1st world nations, owning legitimate businesses. They also sell some oil and trade with raided goods.
It was a joke. Really all I know for a fact is Vladimir Putin said G20 nations are funding, and somebody has to be buying oil from them. I don't understand why the US hasn't located them, and shut them down.
Now I'm scared I'm gonna get picked up in a black van at 3AM
Besides, we all know the CIA funds ISIS.
Whoaa, that is quite a bold statement to make on a public forum. Do you have any source documents as proof of
that? I doubt if the CIA will fund a terrorist organization to kill their own people. Why would they want to do that?
It is more likely that ISIS is getting funding from extremist supporters from within 1st world nations, owning legitimate businesses. They also sell some oil and trade with raided goods.
It's just not fair. Bitcoin allways gets a bad rep with mainstream news Media because guess what they are funded by banks who want bitcoin to go away so they can control. Isn't it obvious?
USD funds terrorist's just as much as bitcoin. The problem isn't what's funding them but who is. I'm honestly surprised that People miss this point all together. Go back to sleep sheep.
Those are my sediments exactly. The big banks are funding these media accusations so they can steal the blockchain technology and toss out bitcoin so they don't have to deal with it or try and integrate it into their banking system somehow. USD funds terrorist's just as much as bitcoin. The problem isn't what's funding them but who is. I'm honestly surprised that People miss this point all together. Go back to sleep sheep. I don't think we will ever know who is funding them as it is all a conspiracy to keep the masses dumb to the facts of what is really going on behind the scenes.
It's just not fair. Bitcoin allways gets a bad rep with mainstream news Media because guess what they are funded by banks who want bitcoin to go away so they can control. Isn't it obvious? USD funds terrorist's just as much as bitcoin. The problem isn't what's funding them but who is. I'm honestly surprised that People miss this point all together. Go back to sleep sheep.
USD funds terrorist's just as much as bitcoin. The problem isn't what's funding them but who is. I'm honestly surprised that People miss this point all together. Go back to sleep sheep. cityam says: "according to reuters"..
yet reuters source is an EU memo
yet when using the find function of the web browser. the EU memo never says the word 'bitcoin' and or 'cryptocurrency'. but when you search virtual currency.. 1 hit appears.. in regards to ensuring exchanges follow AML/KYC..
seriously media needs to research better and stop copy and pasting stories.
here is the memo that all media is speculating at:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-6115_en.htm
search
"bitcoin" = no hits
"crypto" = no hits
"virtual" = 1 hit
can we now ask the OP to rename the topic as debunked.. and then lock it so it cant be bumped by sheep not even bothering to read it and going nuts thinking the media is right
We can say that Bitcoin is mainly use(ober 90%) for illegal activities. This is the truth. Terrorists , ponzies, drug dealers, illegal forex, illegal exchange companies(not licensed) and many others are the real Bitcoin. Withoth these, BTC value will be near zero.
The other part(speculators) is negligible.
This is a very bad publicity, it equals to: "ISIS, come and use bitcoin!" 
I guess the blockchain analysis and black listing will become more and more popular, like Mike Hearn said, unfortunately
I guess the blockchain analysis and black listing will become more and more popular, like Mike Hearn said, unfortunately
cityam says: "according to reuters"..
yet reuters source is an EU memo
yet when using the find function of the web browser. the EU memo never says the word 'bitcoin' and or 'cryptocurrency'. but when you search virtual currency.. 1 hit appears.. in regards to ensuring exchanges follow AML/KYC..
seriously media needs to research better and stop copy and pasting stories.
here is the memo that all media is speculating at:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-6115_en.htm
search
"bitcoin" = no hits
"crypto" = no hits
"virtual" = 1 hit
can we now ask the OP to rename the topic as debunked.. and then lock it so it cant be bumped by sheep not even bothering to read it and going nuts thinking the media is right
It's just bullshit. Nearly all exchanges have AML policies which would prevent such things and the best way is to use localbitcoins but the volume is very small there. It's nearly impossible to fund terrorism massively due to the limited market cap.
Till the adoption rate increases massively, there isn't a risk for Bitcoin to be used as a funding method for terrorism.
Till the adoption rate increases massively, there isn't a risk for Bitcoin to be used as a funding method for terrorism.
Doesn't any type of currency fund terrorism? American dollars, Euros, Yen what have you. All type's of currency can fund them in one way or another. Why is it a surprise to the governments of the world that BTC is "allegedly" one of them? If the media and other's are rallying too "ban" BTC should we in turn ban every other type of currency?? Had to sign-up to give my 0.2 
kind of funny
the paris attackers lived in brussels, and sold their bar(pub) to buy the weapons and rent a car...
so no bitcoin use there...
the british attack on 7/7 2005 and american attack in 9/11 2001 was before bitcoin was even invented.
so will people please use logic and common sense, then read beyond the headline and research facts..
the paris attackers lived in brussels, and sold their bar(pub) to buy the weapons and rent a car...
so no bitcoin use there...
the british attack on 7/7 2005 and american attack in 9/11 2001 was before bitcoin was even invented.
so will people please use logic and common sense, then read beyond the headline and research facts..
Then what about this
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/paris-france-isis-killer-had-3-million-dollar-btc-wallet-fake-updated-1254539
$3 million worth of btc found in Isis milita's possession
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/paris-france-isis-killer-had-3-million-dollar-btc-wallet-fake-updated-1254539
$3 million worth of btc found in Isis milita's possession
read earlier in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3t60z8/isis_bitcoin_wallet_with_3_millions_usd/cx3k9oq
Bad journalism.
I think the bigger question is: How does Daesh* convert any BTC they do control into Cash? Surely no 'Arms Dealers' would accept BTC? What Bank/Exchange is doing this for them? THIS is the source that needs to be shut down, as has been mentioned earlier BTC is only the currency, not the source of income.
*I specifically will never use the term IS/ISIL/ISIS when referring to these thugs. These terms only give them legitimacy. They do not want to create a legitimate "State", only a region of 'stone age peasants' they can control. Please consider using Daesh as well.
see: https://www.freewordcentre.com/blog/2015/02/daesh-isis-media-alice-guthrie/
True the more the dramatic the story the more revenue they get from reporting on it first even if it is false news headlined.
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