[liberationtech] The bitcoin terrorists of Idlib are learning new tricks

Richard Brooks rrb at g.clemson.edu
Sun May 23 20:40:25 CEST 2021


Possibly z-cash, monero, or dash, one would think.
Or mixers and VPNs.

Article is quite vague.

On 5/23/21 12:17 PM, Ox Cart wrote:
> Despite the lead in, there was little concrete in the article about what
> exactly terrorists are doing to "avoid detection". Anyone have any
> insights into this? Are they using mixers, are they using straw
> recipients to hide their identity on the exchange side, what?
> 
> On Sun, May 23, 2021, 1:48 AM Marc Sunet <msunet at shellblade.net
> <mailto:msunet at shellblade.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I don't mean to digress or justify the riot, but as far as I have
>     read, the whole story about the fire extinguisher to the head was
>     just not true:
> 
>     https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-about-officer
>     <https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-about-officer>
> 
>     https://www.rt.com/usa/521532-sicknick-autopsy-capitol-police/
>     <https://www.rt.com/usa/521532-sicknick-autopsy-capitol-police/>
> 
>     On 5/21/21 12:19 PM, Lorelei Kelly wrote:
>>     indeed. so tiresome.   I feel especially insulted by this spewing
>>     anti-social nonsense as someone who worked in the US Capitol
>>     campus (until it became an armed camp).   Those  nihilistic goons
>>     terrorized or killed my colleagues (the Capitol Hill police) 
>>     Enough already with the MadMax ranting.  We have so many real and
>>     perilous challenges before us.  
>>
>>     On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 1:03 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker
>>     <phill at hallambaker.com <mailto:phill at hallambaker.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I find the Trotskyite-Libertarianism of the coinsplainers to
>>         be a crushing bore. The arguments are infantile, ignorant and
>>         insulting.
>>
>>         Don't be fooled by the techno-babble, these same people have
>>         been at the same old libertopian schemes since the mid 90s.
>>         Every time it is different, every time it is the same. The
>>         Feds crushed e-Gold which was beyond reach of government. Then
>>         the Feds crushed gold age which beyond reach of government.
>>         BitCoin is the reason gas prices soared last week with the
>>         Colonial Pipeline attack. Fixing cybersecurity is expensive.
>>         Criminalizing crypto-currencies is a much cheaper approach.
>>
>>         I see absolutely nothing moral in crypto-currencies. Anyone
>>         can prattle on about 'freedom'. Tump's jackbooted goons
>>         stormed the capitol on Jan 6th in the name of 'freedom', they
>>         called everyone who opposed them 'sheep'. By their fruits
>>         shall ye know them: grarpamp's language clearly shows him to
>>         be a bully. His only concept of 'freedom' is there being
>>         nothing to stop him bullying others.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>          
>>
>>         On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 10:46 AM Lorelei Kelly
>>         <loreleikelly at gmail.com <mailto:loreleikelly at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             honest question grarpamp, what is your vision of a shared
>>             future? 
>>             Where I'm from is the most unhealthy, violent and poor
>>             part of the USA.  PLUS,  everyone has sawed off shotguns
>>             and other arsenals in their basement.  This kind of
>>             well-armed defensive paranoia is not that unusual in rural
>>             America.  Do you really think your version of the world
>>             would work in places like this?  People here don't even
>>             have bank accounts or Internet. I know what would happen. 
>>             The most vulnerable, defenseless people would be harmed. 
>>             Are you serious about these words you spout off?  Do you
>>             have a plan for the people who are going to fall between
>>             the cracks of your crypto world?   oh yes, "mutual aid"   
>>             I'd like to hear a more detailed alternative governing
>>             plan, please. 
>>
>>             On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 2:03 AM Marc Sunet
>>             <msunet at shellblade.net <mailto:msunet at shellblade.net>> wrote:
>>
>>                 "...but the men’s eyes remain locked on the price
>>                 chart – they are
>>                 trying to turn $10 into $20."
>>
>>                 Constantinople, here I come...
>>
>>                 On 4/7/21 5:49 AM, grarpamp wrote:
>>                 >>
>>                 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bitcoin-crypto-terrorism-syria
>>                 <https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bitcoin-crypto-terrorism-syria>
>>                 > Anti-crypto FUD. Go look at all what kind of murder
>>                 > crime fraud etc the govts and everyone else does with
>>                 > many billions of dollars, rubles, yuan, etc.
>>                 > While both have similar crime ratios, fiat is still much
>>                 > larger net usage thus it carries magnitudes more crime.
>>                 > But fake news media wouldn't get any propaganda jobs,
>>                 > money, or influence in honestly reporting that fiat
>>                 story.
>>                 >
>>                 >> learning ... crypto
>>                 > Yes learn and adopt distributed crypto, move past
>>                 all your
>>                 > colosally obese growing governments that are
>>                 starting shit,
>>                 > stomping around the world murdering thousand and
>>                 thousands,
>>                 > torturing, prisoning, starving, stealing money from
>>                 you under
>>                 > threat of death to stuff their own crony wallets,
>>                 spyveillancing and
>>                 > passporting you entire life forever, FUD program on
>>                 24x7 in your fake
>>                 > news, plotting more ways for GovCorp power to keep
>>                 sucking your life.
>>                 > Soon you won't even have the cash they keep printing
>>                 to intentionally
>>                 > devalue your wealth and living ability with,
>>                 saddling you with
>>                 > more and more of their wasted debt load... since they
>>                 > are now officially rolling out their worthless
>>                 cashless society
>>                 > fake crypto fiat called Central Bank Digital
>>                 Currencies CBDC's,
>>                 > MMT and UBI to screw and spy and control you even
>>                 more, turn you
>>                 > off and forfeit you in a second, and cancel your
>>                 activism,
>>                 > freespeech, dissent, freedom... totalitarian control
>>                 in the extreme.
>>                 > Govt lately saying you cant secede to have bit of
>>                 independence
>>                 > and freedom (catalan, hong kong, taiwan, etc...),
>>                 locking
>>                 > you down fining you shutting down your business all
>>                 2020 corona,
>>                 > politicians baldly lying being idiots on your news,
>>                 social
>>                 > scoring gone insane. Yet not a peep of effective
>>                 resistance.
>>                 >
>>                 > Wake up sheeple, to what in the world is happening.
>>                 > GovCorp trying to end your monetary freedom,
>>                 > cashless, etc is no joke... you will lose remaining
>>                 freedom.
>>                 > You are free beautiful people.
>>                 > You don't need them or their crap anymore.
>>                 > You have crypto, can organize and do and build
>>                 > and teach and roads and charity and health and
>>                 > live as you wish locally and wider, voluntarily,
>>                 together.
>>                 > Go create freedom.
>>                 >
>>                 > Here are some surrounding subjects hinted in article,
>>                 > with two of them exposing a big underlying problem...
>>                 >
>>                 http://monzer.kahf.com/fatawa/FATAWA_CURRENCIES_GOLD_COMMODITIES.pdf
>>                 <http://monzer.kahf.com/fatawa/FATAWA_CURRENCIES_GOLD_COMMODITIES.pdf>
>>                 > https://decrypt.co/37286/is-bitcoin-halal
>>                 <https://decrypt.co/37286/is-bitcoin-halal>
>>                 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rqw4krMOug
>>                 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rqw4krMOug>
>>                 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsEZeNE288
>>                 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsEZeNE288>
>>                 >
>>                 https://soundcloud.com/radioislam/is-bitcoin-halal-or-haram
>>                 <https://soundcloud.com/radioislam/is-bitcoin-halal-or-haram>
>>                 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZIoOZj46E
>>                 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZIoOZj46E>
>>                 >
>>                 > ps: Govts about to start WWIII. If you adopted
>>                 > crypto like crypto libertarians told you, you could
>>                 easily
>>                 > leave funding their wars, and them, off the list of
>>                 > things you choose to pay for.
>>                 >
>>                 > Your old "voting" obviously didn't get you any more
>>                 freedom,
>>                 > maybe the new distributed privacy crypto hotness will.
>>                 >
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>>
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>>
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