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Fckin' ISIS is entangled with bitcoin again?

Millions Worth of Bitcoins Might Be Utilized By ISIS http://bit.ly/1x0qDBU

Is there truth about this news? What is the impact of this on Bitcoin's price and the digital currency as a whole?

theres lot of incentive for bitcoin to be used for illegal purchases, not really a surprise.

We cannot stop that. Just like what happened to the Internet in the early days.
Bad guys will use it for bad purposes.
If they don't have bitcoin, they'll eventually find other tools.

Maybe we should convince them to use Darkcoin. More anonymous, and will keep the bitcoin clear.
Why won't they take paypal ? :P

isnt isis algoeda i fought we suppressed the religious freaks the must all be nuked their minds are fucked with allahs paradise world they dont understand how insignificant the world is compared to the entire universe... space engine helped me managed those numbers idiots wearing black clof all over them in the summer... retards

While I don't support ISIS or their philosophy I think its fantastic that users are trusting the network enough to secure their privacy. You know Bitcoin is working as intended when governments cannot attack, prevent or shutdown money transferring on the Bitcoin network.

It is very possible that they are using bitcoins to fund their Jihad missions. And using the dark web in order to facilitate this implementation.
Bitcoin price may go down due to this but time and time again, bitcoin surely will bounce and get bullish.

Well, but the government might try to make it illegal, which could turn bad at a later point.

ISIS and al-qaeda don't use bitcoin, they use couriers and cash, Western Union sometimes. they aren't technical enough to understand or use bitcoin

One of the most idiotic things I have read in a long time.

So, you can speak for every member of these groups and say that they are too dumb to use bitcoin? 

Some governments have already made bitcoin illegal and more may follow. I wouldn't want the US or other governments to make it illegal , but doing this would certainly be a better outcome than blacklisting coins  or placing a backdoor on bitcoin.

Lets hope they are smart enough to make the sensible decision and not to drive bitcoin completely in the black market.

We need to keep reminding people that most ISIS fundraising is still done with USD fiat and most terrorism is still funded with usd fiat.

This could very well be a white flag operation by the United states to bring a bad name to bitcoin.

With the amount of trolls on this forum as of late I am beginning to wonder if they are all disgruntled alt supporters or possibly some government shills mixed in. We can only speculate.

Well even if you assume they are government FUDS, then the only thing they promote is to dump the price. In no way does a price decrease mean that bitcoin will cease to exist.

I'd like to see the forensics behind truely anonymous use of btc. Obviously, if a bad actor gets away with sending btc to ISIS and ISIS converts btc to fiat to buy more bombs or whatever, and it is done 100% untraceably, no one would ever know. But could a theoretical transaction be made, showing how it is done? From original donator to ISIS to cash to bloody swords. I keep hearing opposing claims; btc can be traced, no matter what, and btc can be fully anonymouse, when used properly.

Also, some where along the way, they have to both cash in and cash out. If they aren't, then they are the first ever entity to operate in a 100% btc only ecosystem.
That would make them kinda special in the btc world, wouldn't it.

Anyway, I don't believe they are using, probably not much. They have the same adoption barriers as the rest of us ON TOP of all the other obsticles they face (as they should!)

That could be a possibility too. You cannot underestimate the power of US banking institution

Might... might not.

One thing is for sure, Millions Worth of USD Is Utilized By ISIS

So you believe the news?

Nah there is no proof about the BTC use.

Have you read the article? Maybe not..

From another thread:

And now they are using gold. LOL.
I may believe the news when they will get enough evidence about it.
Maybe the webste was just made by a bitcoin scammer to get more bitcoin out from the ISIS "subject"

So they're using Bitcoin?

I thought ISIS members doesnt even know how to use spoons and forks?

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Any truth about this?

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That is very horrifying to hear.  :(

Islamic state "Iraq & Syria" , those countries aren't really bitcoin friendly . are they ? So I don't understand how they are using them to be honest unless for online purshases .
I don't even get why a bunch of people with Rifles & guns will need any money anyway (Digital currency or fiat ) :o

~ Madness

Fiat is used waay more for illegal activities so what's point of saying that about btc? Also they have to exchange it into fiat again.

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i never know about isis and what they do i think they want
gettin interaction more

Have you heard about what they're doing all over the world? Have you heard about their BIFF faction who killed 44 police in Asia.
ISIS should not be tolerated. It doesnt matter if they use bitcoin or fiat.

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I'm not so sure about that.  Seems to me that they pop up as a pretty convenient boogie-man pretty much on cue whenever we need an excuse to bomb something or demonize something or whatever.

And just the 'news' that ISIS have beheaded someone sends the sheep into a panicked stampede.  It's a good thing that almost nobody actually watches the vids of the so-called beheadings...they are so damn fake it's genuinely funny.  The sad thing is that the very same day that one of the ISIS beheading was supposed to have taken place there were like 19 real ones in Saudi Arabia including one for 'witchcraft' and nobody in the U.S. gave a damn about that.  But the Saudis are our friends I guess.  Someday we'll achieve the goal of glorious Democracy in over there in the gulf monarchies.  I know that's true because when they called my ass back in for 'desert storm' a quarter of a century ago that's what they told me.

Well... bitcoin's transactions are almost immediate ( ~10 minutes if you include confirmation). I have a question though: what can a terrorist organization buy with bitcoin that they can't already buy with fiat?  ???

People really think, they can stop them, if they do not use Bitcoin? There are a gazillion other ways for them to fund terrorism.

You can buy fake credit cards and debit cards and loads of other things online to fund these things. You only need 1 x AK47 to shoot a policemen in the street. {This has been proven in Paris}

We live in a VERY cruel world, where people need to justify their religion with guns. The USA have guns everywhere... Some people own heavy weapons, that can kill thousands, and it's legal.

I do not have the sollution for this sick world, but I know a mouth is better than a gun.

To try to stop Bitcoin, because a VERY small percentage of people might use it to fund terrorism, is in my opinion the wrong angle to follow.

A lot of things if they are buying them from far away, coz thy would need irl cash.

Just another way to scam people, raising btc in kind of a sick way.

Ask yourself do they need to use bitcoin? imo No they do not they have got along just fine without it.

But if they did that's alot of new money going into Bitcoin  ::)

As long as they're using Bitcoin, that will be good for us.

And did you know ISIS also uses fiat, guns, ammo, cars, fuel, clothes, food, water, and even breathe oxygen? Maybe all those things are evil because they support crime!

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I stopped caring about it long ago.. well..atleast they found out the advantages of BTC...not its time normal ppl do too..

But bitcoin was designed to be convenient for folks like ISIS isn't it ? Freedom has its costs and this is perhaps one of them.

Its designed to be convenient for everyone. That's why the government should not focusing their attention to bitcoin but to the terrorists instead.

Good or bad publicity it is still publicity.
IT doesnt matter, good thing is they are using bitcoin.

Yeah bitcoin is the money for terrorists

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How you hell find this, what's his purpose to do that?

His purpose is spread negative propaganda on Bitcoin and scare potential investors.

ISIS are too dumb to use Bitcoin.

We should not worry about it.

Fuck them

I just hope obama will kill them all.

I would expect that they are using BTC. It seems to me that if they are, it is being used in a very limited way. DASCH does have enough tech savvy members who would understand the importance of bitcoin. They also have a strong incentive considering their need to move money around the world. Making it even more attractive is the fact that bitcoin plays nicely with Islamic banking rules.

Then again, they are currently gearing up to produce their own gold coins. I suspect people will continue to use gold anyway. 

you really think million worth of bitcoins will be used by ISIS ???
why would they use something that is traceable and govt. will surely look into such big movement

Most of the money will keep being moved in USD because is the mot accepted world wide, btc is still a small niche.

Yes , so them using BTC instead of USD is totally irrelevant

They passed on them I think http://bitforum.info/t/did-isis-really-passed-on-bitcoin/338/1

They wouldn't use bitcoins as i know as that will bring many eyes on them and also hard to pay

There is no concrete evidence that ISIS is using Bitcoin,

There are some reports that the group is using some sort of 'currency' but there wasnt any official statement yet.