Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 How Cryptocurrency Revolutionized the White Supremacist Movement WWW.SPLCENTER.ORG White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways, a Hatewatch Quote White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways, a Hatewatch analysis found. Hatewatch identified and compiled over 600 cryptocurrency addresses associated with white supremacists and other prominent far-right extremists for this essay and then probed their transaction histories through blockchain analysis software. What we found is striking: White supremacists such as Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents, race pseudoscience pundit Stefan Molyneux, Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer and Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer, and Don Black of the racist forum Stormfront, all bought into Bitcoin early in its history and turned a substantial profit from it. The estimated tens of millions of dollars’ worth of value extreme far-right figures generated represents a sum that would almost certainly be unavailable to them without cryptocurrency, and it gave them a chance to live comfortable lives while promoting hate and authoritarianism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 oh no not our beautiful distributed ledger technology 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 this is good for bitcoin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 All the more reason to put those drones to good use and take out some of those mining operations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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