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Mexican Drug Cartels Sneak In $25 Billion A Year Using Bitcoin To Fund Operations
It’s unsurprising that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have found their way into the dangerous realm of drug cartels. According to law enforcement officials, cryptocurrency is developing as a new front in Latin America’s fight against gangs vying for control of massive illicit marketplaces for sex, drugs, guns, and people. In Mexico, it has been reported […] дальше »
2022-3-14 15:19 | |
Is Bitcoin A Tool For Criminals? Drug Cartels Prefer Banks
A report from The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) shows that bitcoin is not the preferred method for drug cartels and other criminal groups to launder money, they rather use banks. This opposes the widespread narrative that claims the digital coin creates the opportunity for crime. дальше »
2022-3-12 02:59 | |
Australian Federal Police Take Hold of Artillery Dealer’s Bitcoin, Flip into Major Profits
Drug cartels and other criminal activities are mostly associated with Bitcoin trading. This is to raise funds to enhance their criminal activities. In the event, however, when the police confiscate $BTC from these illegal activities, where do they go? In Australia, for instance, it’s has been disclosed that in one scenario, the police collected a 20-fold […] дальше »
2019-10-25 00:21 | |
Paraguay’s Economic Debt Crisis Could End with Bitcoin Mining as a Big Boost to the Bottom Line
Paraguay has had several hydroelectric towns that many had associated them with the drug cartels, ammunition and also smuggling. But now it has become the new home for the crypto miners in the market who have been connected to a very sophisticated network involved with mining crypto coins for their owners. It is finally giving […] дальше »
2018-11-14 02:43 | |
Bitcoin Mining May Trigger the End of Paraguay’s Economic and Debt Crisis
Paraguay’s hydroelectric powered-towns, long associated as dugouts for drug cartels, smuggling, and ammunition rackets, are now home to miners connected in a sophisticated network circuitry to mine cryptocurrencies for their owners. дальше »
2018-11-12 16:00 | |
Credit Card Cartels Landed With $6.2 Billion Price-Fixing Bill
Visa and Mastercard have run up the mother of all credit card bills. The monopolistic payment providers had been embroiled in a long-running lawsuit instigated by merchants protesting their excessive fees. дальше »
2018-9-20 06:25 | |
Bitcoin 2018 vs Bitcoin 2019: The Ever-Changing Narrative of Bitcoin
A look At The Ever-Changing Narrative Of Bitcoin Throughout the decade since Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper release, the narratives of bitcoin has changed. For example, back in the early days, Bitcoin technology was supposed to eradicate the current banking cartels and remove money from the state’s power as well. At least that’s what the early bitcoiners […] дальше »
2018-8-20 14:11 | |
Analysts: Bitcoin isn’t replacing fiat currency anytime soon
For the past few years, through boom and bust, hype cycles and FUD (and just about anything in between), we’ve heard that Bitcoin is what’s next. Evangelists say it’s the logical successor to fiat currency, a long-overdue replacement to paper cash that’s overstayed its welcome. дальше »
2018-8-7 22:27 | |
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |