2018-7-16 18:42 |
When politicians and mainstream media began finger pointing, they had only one culprit to blame – bitcoin.
No, the biggest takeaway from all this was that bitcoin had facilitated one of the gravest nation state-orchestrated crimes in years.
As the detailed indictment against the Russian dozen reveals, however, bitcoin didn’t exactly enable the accused to cover their tracks.
Did it enable Russian agents to commit the crime or did it enable law enforcement to catch them?
Whether bitcoin helps or hinders criminals depends, to a large extent, on the nature of the crime.