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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by freeone3000 »

capableweb wrote: post #89
rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

I'm not sure if you were the one butchering the quote, the author butchered it or if the author wrote it wrong on purpose. Laid out like in your comment, there isn't anything wrong with the line. "our" could refer to humanity. For reference, the famous quote that is VERY similar is "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children". Notice the missing "white" from rchauds quote. Again, not s…

You don't use wording like that on accident. Being one word off from a white supremacist quote in a message sent to white supremacists is incredibly unlikely to be accidental.

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Post by coldtea »

redisman wrote: post #37
kristopolous wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spend time on gab and parler (I'm not a believer, I'm just curious). It really looks like it's people who genuinely feel Joe Biden will be the end of america. They think the stock market will crash and dollars will be useless as Biden ushers in some kind of communism. From the volume of comments on the posts, there's quite many of them. This run will probably last as long as their finances allow. I don't think it'l…

Sometimes you just gotta wonder about some people. The most pro status-quo candidate in a generation is planning to take us to the dark ages?

Well, "business as usual" has led working class (and middle class) america to wage stagnation, increasingly worse jobs, de-industrialization, decline of small towns, meth/heroin rise, and such, plus wars mainly using poor rural people as fodder, and other such niceties.

Plus coastal elites (including non-elites who still identify as hollier-than the plebs in the fly-over country) sneering at them.

The glorious march of the stock market, or the glorious technological future, only meant being worse of (job prospects, housing costs, healthcare costs, education costs, etc.) for them. Even openly calling out a 40% who voted another candidate "deplorables".

So from this European's standapoint, it makes sense for these people to consider more of the status quo to mean "return to the dark ages".

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Post by SimonPStevens »

ajkdhcb2 wrote: post #69
SimonPStevens wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure of the point here, this seems a bit nonsensical. Do you avoid using cash too because criminals use it? Using or accepting Bitcoin is not dangerous because of this. And you have no more chance of unintentionally recieving funds linked to this than you have of unintentionally recieving cash used for criminal purposes. (Not intending to start an argument for or against Bitcoin, and there are other pros and…

Cash is private so it doesn't matter. When you pay with it, nobody knows where it came from. You can have extreme inconvenience for being linked to illegal bitcoin transactions.

Cash is only private if you never put it in a bank.

But if the reason for taking the payment is legitimate you're going to have no more problems with Bitcoin than you will with cash in this regard.

If your reason for taking the payment is illegal then I agree, Bitcoin puts you at some greater risk. But if that's you're point then perhaps you should be clearer. Bitcoin can be dangerous to use for criminals because it's more traceable. If your use is legal, it's no more or less dangerous than cash.

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Post by llamaz »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #87
ASalazarMX wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world. Yes, we have many people doing horrible things all over the world, but people being vile because their ancestors had less sun than others is a special kind of pointless stupidity.

>It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world. What a snobbish and elitist thing to say. Try saying that to the Sentinelese or Amazonian tribes that still don't have contact with our messed up globalist world. One of the reasons we are living in this chaotic time is because of a growing middle class elite living in metropolitan areas who are either unwilling or incapable of understand…

there's a few gradations of difference between Trump voters and neo-Nazis...

parent is talking about the latter

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by parliament32 »

ajkdhcb2 wrote: post #33

I hope this will get attention. Just so more people will realise that bitcoin is dangerous to use and accept because it is not private. Even if youre doing nothing wrong, would you want to unintentionally receive funds linked to this?

You do understand that I can go to your bank and make a deposit into your account with just your name and DOB, right?

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by 1996 »

Regardless of any political opinions, this is utterly disgusting.

They are outing someone who was driven to suicide by physical pain due to disease. If this person had wanted the donation to be public, maybe he would have.

But hey, if it's for your business and tooting your horn in your crazy chainanalysis and googling skills, it's somehow ok?

> "Chainalysis is actively looking to identify any additional extremist payments and activity and will keep our customers updated"

And it's also somehow excusable because... extremists?

Do they also want some congrats and a pat on the back?

Such lack of morality in tech is appalling.

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by capableweb »

freeone3000 wrote: post #91
capableweb wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you were the one butchering the quote, the author butchered it or if the author wrote it wrong on purpose. Laid out like in your comment, there isn't anything wrong with the line. "our" could refer to humanity. For reference, the famous quote that is VERY similar is "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children". Notice the missing "white" from rchauds quote. Again, not s…

You don't use wording like that on accident. Being one word off from a white supremacist quote in a message sent to white supremacists is incredibly unlikely to be accidental.

> You don't use wording like that on accident

Stupidier things have happened in the past. I bet more than half of HN wouldn't know that quote if you removed the "white" part, so not so unlikely that someone who doesn't know it, sends it to others as the sentiment (without the "white" part) is actually pretty good.

Re: U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by joejerryronnie »

Klonoar wrote: post #12

The other day, I tweeted out my tin-foil-hat theory that the recent BTC runup was partly due to alt-right interests, expecting the events on the 6th to go very differently. This kind of makes me wonder even harder.

I believe it’s the same group of people artificially (but maybe not deliberately) inflating both BTC and Tesla
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