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Title: 2012-09-11 nwn.blogs.com - US Central Command Wants Counter-Terrorism Finance An Post by: Stephen Gornick on September 12, 2012, 11:40:57 PM US Central Command Wants Counter-Terrorism Finance Analyst with Second Life & Bitcoin Experience to Deploy in Afghanistan
Quote The analyst will be tracking "Counter-Narco-Terror illicit finance", which means the applicant should know about Sharia-compliant banking and terrorist finance, along with knowledge of "emerging alternative and mobile payment methods", especially Bitcoin and Second Life, which both enable the (relatively anonymous) conversion of real money into virtual currency, and vice versa. (And notably, there seems to be a lot of trade between Bitcoin and SL's Linden Lab currency.) - http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/09/us-central-command-looking-for-second-life-bitcoin-expert.html Title: Re: 2012-09-11 nwn.blogs.com - US Central Command Wants Counter-Terrorism Finance An Post by: Luno on September 17, 2012, 10:09:36 PM There are no wallets in Afghanistan! http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/. One in Iraq, He is enlisted and on this forum.
Title: Re: 2012-09-11 nwn.blogs.com - US Central Command Wants Counter-Terrorism Finance An Post by: marcus_of_augustus on September 17, 2012, 10:38:56 PM Deploy to afghanistan ... wow, hit the lottery there hackster.
Hmmm, do I stay in silicon valley bitcoin start-up or move to afghanistan to track down bad guys using bitcoins? What are they on these govt. wonks? |