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Title: [2015-11-19] Some facts about digital currency and terrorist financing
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on November 19, 2015, 08:44:47 PM
Some facts about digital currency and terrorist financing

After the recent attacks in Paris, governments are redoubling their efforts to combat terrorist financing, and we’ve been asked how digital currencies might be affected by these efforts. The answer is that digital currencies like Bitcoin, and the service providers that help consumers access digital currency networks, don’t pose any greater threat of being abused by criminals and terrorists than other financial networks. Yet that doesn’t stop the publication of headlines like, “After Paris Attacks, Europe Is Cracking Down On Bitcoin.”

https://coincenter.org/2015/11/some-facts-about-digital-currency-and-terrorist-financing/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=facts