Bitcoin - one of the Terrorists Funding Sources - page 6.

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Quote from: Slark on November 17, 2015, 08:42:02 AM

Quote from: yenxz on November 17, 2015, 08:32:04 AM

I hope that was not true,i little afraid Cheesy

Afraid of what exactly? Are you afraid of every knife because it is potentially killing tool?
And even if 'terrorists' have bitcoin stash so what? Let's ban dollars, euro and gold because terrorists use them for buying weapons and financing their operations too!

Yes. I mean, I personally don't condone the terrorists' actions but there's nothing wring in using as a tool for moving funds.

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That is pretty stupid to be said... Every type of currency can be used to finance terrorism. You can even finance terrorism with meat and milk as many supporters for terrorist groups in Latin america have done. And actually, if we could make a research we would find that terrorism is mostly financed by plain ond cash!

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Quote from: PAKYU on November 17, 2015, 08:39:31 AM

Quote from: tokeweed on November 17, 2015, 08:14:55 AM

Why are most of you in denial that BTC/crypto is one, if not, the most useful tool for terrorists, money launderers, and black market participants for moving funds?

It's there to leverage the power from the imperialists back to the people... Sadly in this case, terrorists. This is what Amir Taaki was saying when he created Dark Wallet. He doesn't deny that the purpose of Dark Wallet + BTC was that it could be used for illegal means. I think he even encourages it.

There is always a good and bad side. In this case terrorist take an advantage on bitcoin and abused it.

Abuse? It's what exactly Bitcoin is for.

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Quote from: NorrisK on November 17, 2015, 08:37:41 AM

Bitcoin is not the source of funding, it is one of the means of funding..

There are people that fund them and they use bitcoin. It is not bitcoin that funds them.

Yup. Exactly. People should see it more in this context.

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It is what it is, but I hope that the Anonymous will hacked ther BTC if it is possible.

But I think it will be very difficult. I am kinda scared of this Terrorists think :/

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Quote from: yenxz on November 17, 2015, 08:32:04 AM

I hope that was not true,i little afraid Cheesy

Afraid of what exactly? Are you afraid of every knife because it is potentially killing tool?
And even if 'terrorists' have bitcoin stash so what? Let's ban dollars, euro and gold because terrorists use them for buying weapons and financing their operations too!

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Quote from: tokeweed on November 17, 2015, 08:14:55 AM

Why are most of you in denial that BTC/crypto is one, if not, the most useful tool for terrorists, money launderers, and black market participants for moving funds?

It's there to leverage the power from the imperialists back to the people... Sadly in this case, terrorists. This is what Amir Taaki was saying when he created Dark Wallet. He doesn't deny that the purpose of Dark Wallet + BTC was that it could be used for illegal means. I think he even encourages it.

There is always a good and bad side. In this case terrorist take an advantage on bitcoin and abused it.

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Bitcoin is not the source of funding, it is one of the means of funding..

There are people that fund them and they use bitcoin. It is not bitcoin that funds them.

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I hope that was not true,i little afraid Cheesy

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Why are most of you in denial that BTC/crypto is one, if not, the most useful tool for terrorists, money launderers, and black market participants for moving funds?

It's there to leverage the power from the imperialists back to the people... Sadly in this case, terrorists. This is what Amir Taaki was saying when he created Dark Wallet. He doesn't deny that the purpose of Dark Wallet + BTC was that it could be used for illegal means. I think he even encourages it.

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Quote from: franky1 on November 17, 2015, 05:56:48 AM

unless there was a public key found along side them fake and unburnt passports.. the media is only guessing.

But I doubt these guys are.

"Hacktivists claim ISIS terrorists linked to Paris attacks had bitcoin funding": http://www.networkworld.com/article/3005308/security/hacktivists-claim-isis-terrorists-linked-to-paris-attacks-had-bitcoin-funding.html

From the article: "Ghost Security Group confirmed to NewsBTC that ISIS is "extensively using bitcoin for funding their operations" and that the group has "managed to uncover several bitcoin addresses used by them." Furthermore, bitcoin is "their prime form of cryptocurrency."

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ISIS has stolen $430 millions from the vault in Mosul! In my opinion, it would be 10 times easier to get this money sent by the Western Union anywhere in the world than by the Bitcoin.

We have to understand, that these people have people that work for them and that are "just normal" citizens in many European countries with their families, etc. Of course that they are receiving money in their names and after they are giving it to these self blowing idiots.

This theory about Bitcoin is a complete BS, yet I am afraid that we might somehow suffer because of these Paris events!

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I think they get most of they're funding by selling oil and gasses

It's cheaper to get oil over there than in the West

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These are just guesses and no valid proof that they did use bitcoins. Gold can be the biggest funding source and these criminals trade it illegally. However, this news is just going to affect bitcoins again in a negative way.

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BTC > etc

Bitcoin could be used by them as medium for transferring value, no different from a bank transfer or western union. Unlike oil, gold, antiquities, I doubt ISIS found a bunch of government private keys full of btcs while invading territories in Syria and Iraq

pretty sure they are not paying terrorists' salaries in btc either

Main terror funding sources are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey
but we all just turn a blind eye because they are supposedly "allies" and only fund "moderate" rebels

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Quote from: Supebox on November 17, 2015, 07:27:18 AM

It's difficult to stop the funding

Seeing as it can come from anywhere and anyone

We can't just stop our economy just for them, it's just not possible

so $500 ATM limits and $10,000 wire transfer limits have never happened and impossible?

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Quote from: sartorpc on November 17, 2015, 07:24:14 AM

their funds come from everywhere, standard currency and also btc, it is hard to control that, I wish there was a way to stop them from using bitcoin. If you check the black market on the deepweb you will find that you can buy many weapons and explosives using btc, I just had a look at this like a year ago.

well even if you cant stop the BTC purchases.. you can easily stop the delivery of the good purchased. after all an AK-47 is not the size of a letter.. so easy to spot when using delivery companies.

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It's difficult to stop the funding

Seeing as it can come from anywhere and anyone

We can't just stop our economy just for them, it's just not possible

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Quote from: Dapallo on November 17, 2015, 07:21:08 AM

It's possible

But I also think that some of their funding comes from corrupted people inside goverments

How else are they able to recruit so many people and get so many destructive weapons.

Shorena posted above a video, which says ISIS is also in the magazine subscription business.. i guess all them $$ selling magazines cant be ignored

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their funds come from everywhere, standard currency and also btc, it is hard to control that, I wish there was a way to stop them from using bitcoin. If you check the black market on the deepweb you will find that you can buy many weapons and explosives using btc, I just had a look at this like a year ago.

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