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Friday's indictment of 12 Russian spies provides the first details of how the operatives paid for their hacking campaign against the D.N.C. Their payment of choice? Bitcoin. w/

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How Russian Spies Hid Behind Bitcoin in Hacking Campaign (Published 2018)

Operatives used cryptocurrency to obscure their identities and pay for the infrastructure needed to steal emails from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

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or rather *didn't* hide behind bitcoin. Great piece on how bitcoin is inferior to cash when it comes to facilitating crime.

12:06 AM · Jul 14, 2018Twitter Web Client

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They hid long enough to achieve their aim, so I'd say it was an effective way for them to obscure their identity.

Jesse Powell

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Jul 14, 2018

I like that as a slogan: Bitcoin: good enough to complete the crime, but you go to prison right after.

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Totally..

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The site kraken have s bug, then facilitate crime