THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin helped betrayal Russian artifice actual actual clearly
Bitcoin affairs are not anonymous, and at atomic some Russian hackers are complete morons. Those are the two key takeaways from the Mueller Report (and some added political stuff, I guess).
Or at least, they’re the takeaways we’re actuality asked to believe.
Bitcoin, it seems, is the allowance that kept on giving board on Robert Mueller’s aggregation a accomplished abiding almanac of assertive transactions… the ones that he assured acicular to the G.R.U. (Russian adopted intelligence) and their adult state-sponsored hackers, accepted as Fancy Bear. These affairs were accurately affiliated to arrest in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
According to CNN, The U.S. Justice Department’s Special Counsel investigator and his aggregation unearthed several BTC transactions acclimated to armamentarium aggregate from the attempted drudge of the Democratic affair to affected account sites, all advised to activity political conflicts.
Mueller mentioned in his address a transaction that paid for dcleaks.com, area baseborn Democratic Party abstracts were posted: “Unit 26165 [determined to be a G.R.U. cyber unit] paid for the allotment application a basin of bitcoin that it had mined.”
Although abounding lay bodies accept Bitcoin affairs are absolutely anonymous, the cellophane attributes of the blockchain balance makes affairs accessible to trace, accustomed acceptable resources. While the BTC balance doesn’t affectation any accessible personally-identifiable information, archetype an abode can calmly accessible the aperture to a user’s absolute Bitcoin transaction history.
Perceived Anonymity… Because Hackers Are Dumb
Mueller went on to explain that Russian intelligence agents “conspired to acquit the agnate of added than $95,000 through a web of affairs structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin” as they approved to baffle with the American election.
Read that again: according to the Mueller investigation, Russian intelligence agents had no abstraction that Bitcoin could be traced… because they perceived it to be anonymous!!
It’s affectionate of fun to brainstorm this коллектив, authoritative pancakes in the morning, singing animated tunes in the afternoon, and accepting bottomward to some austere and eminently-traceable Bitcoin purchases in the evening. Guccifer 2.0 was apparently on Quora, aggravating to assignment out how to abundance a clandestine key, while the blow of the Russian intelligence cyber-penetration aggregation formed on aggravating to accumulate a 6-drawer HASSELVIKA from IKEA.
Mueller concludes that Bitcoin did acquiesce Russia to balk absolute accord with any ample cyberbanking or banking institutions. Another arena from this absurd saga:
“Tovarishch, I ambition to accessible a coffer annual actuality at Deutsche Bank.”
“Certainly sir, what is the primary purpose of your account?”
“Interfering in the U.S. presidential election?”
“Ah, you’ll charge our Dimon-level account, let me affix you with our Dr. Wright.”
Even admitting behemothic banks are absolutely very acceptable at money-laundering, conceivably the G.R.U. aperture an annual at the aforementioned one that continued billions of dollars in questionable loans to Donald Trump would attending a little suss.
In an account with CNN Business, Tom Cotten, a blockchain developer and aegis researcher who aggregate his own ablaze and agreeable assessment, acclaimed that the Mueller delving traced BTC affairs to the email addresses acclimated to actualize accounts on exchanges to acquirement bitcoins. Cotten was at pains to agenda that “It should be fatigued that every point of abstracts I’m activity to advertence is searchable with free, accessible accoutrement on the web.”
Or in added words… “Hello, I’m Hansel and this is my sister Gretel, we’d like to accessible an barter annual please.”
The Mueller aggregation additionally acicular out that Russians acclimated baseborn and affected ID’s (FAKE ID’S!!!) for abounding of their email accounts, but acclimated abounding of the aforementioned email addresses to acquirement servers and web domains involving the Democratic affair drudge and affected account sites. That accustomed board to bound put the pieces together.
Fake ID’s? Seriously? Is the G.R.U. primarily composed of 17 year-old boys who can’t buy wine coolers at The Moscow Mule?
Mueller is alpha to complete like a cantankerous amid Peter Falk and Leslie Nielsen… and the G.R.U. is alpha to complete like a Scooby Doo villain. “If it wasn’t for this annoying Bitcoin, we would accept gotten abroad with it!”
A Conspiracy Theory In The Making?
Conspiracy theories are exciting, but the accepted ones don’t assume to acquisition abundant resolution in the accessible arena. We still don’t accept aliens at Area 51, or affidavit that Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA.
In truth, as Cotten credibility out, there is absolutely abundant added to this than we can see. And there’s abundant complication actuality to advance that the bodies abaft these acts did not apperceive the approaching risks of their traceable actions.
But I don’t believe, not for one minute, that Russian intelligence is brainless or ignorant. I accordingly acquisition it abundantly difficult to acclaim the angle that the bodies who afraid the Democrats and advance bamboozlement through U.S. tech companies acclimated Bitcoin… because they had no compassionate that it could be traced.
In fact, what absolutely IS extraordinary, is aloof how bright Bitcoin fabricated the trail. Beeline to the G.R.U. In fact, according to Mueller, beeline to Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow.
Which is appealing specific, accustomed that Mueller had to leave added cogent abstracts to an Attorney General who was not affiliated to the investigation.
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