Ein Vorgehen gegen mit der Hamas in Verbindung stehende Kryptowährungskonten hat die Überprüfung digitaler Vermögenswerte nach dem Angriff der Terrorgruppe auf Israel neu entfacht. Kriminelle und terroristische Organisationen nutzen Krypto, um Gesetze und Sanktionen zu umgehen

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1. I’m rattling my jewelry at that headline

2. Silly goobers. Cash is the most used currency for crime and the usd reigns supreme in this use case. At least crypto is more transparent.

3. Good thing they never use US dollars.

4. Who would have thought… anyway, this only underlines that, for us civilians, cryptocurrency is not some holy grail for privacy. Cash is still the better option.

5. Why wasn’t this concern brought up before?

6. Physical dollars and gold are way easier to launder. Blockchains like Bitcoin are public on purpose to limit fraud.

7. That’s literally what the cryptobros wanted, to be able to engage in finance without dealing with pesky things like laws, regulations, and oversight.

8. Another war they’re going to use as a strawman to push their agenda. Hate to break it to them, but there’s more money laundering done through banks and hedge funds than anywhere else

9. It seems Russia is heavily involved in funding Hamas using cryptocurrency.

   [Wall Street Journal: Hamas received millions of dollars through Moscow-based crypto exchange](https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-world/news-wall-street-journal-hamas-received-millions-of-dollars-through-moscow-based-crypto-exchange-14-10-2023.html)

10. >Digital wallets controlled by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which joined Hamas in the attacks, received a portion of $93 million via Garantex, according to analysis by researcher Elliptic, which said Hamas also used a similar financing strategy.

    [https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/garantex-russian-crypto-hamas-crime-sanctions-a3648357](https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/garantex-russian-crypto-hamas-crime-sanctions-a3648357)

    From this article behind paywall. Garantex is a Russian Crypto Exchange under sanctions by the US Treasury.

11. “I just financed terrorism in the metaverse!” – Crypto Luigi

12. Oh. So what currency was there before crypto? I guess there was no crime before and everything was good in Utopia.

13. That was all along known. You cannot have a currency with no control at all. And now you guess what the Swiss Banks are dealing with this currency as well….