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Is the European Union missing the point wrt terrorism and cryptocurrency?

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Coindesk today wrote about an EU crackdown on bitcoin after the Paris attacks. Cash is the default value transfer mechanism of choice for terrorists. If anything, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin provide at least some capability for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to track down terrorists. Services like those offered by Elliptic provide transaction mapping capability which […]

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Blockchain’s Potential Role in the Syrian Refugee Crisis

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In a recent Coindesk article titled “Meet the Dad Who Registered His Daughter’s Birth on the Blockchain”, Santiago Siri explained why and how he did so. This got me to thinking about all the refugees leaving Syria and heading to continental Europe, Canada and the US. Many have no governmental identification whatsoever. They are interviewed […]

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