Putin has overestimated his ability to use cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions; US has intercepted an

[Yorkie Mom]

Putin has overestimated his ability to use cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions; US has intercepted and taken down a number of crypto networks: FBI Chief Chris Wray tells Senate Intell Committee.

Link to tweet

[nycbos]

1. Excellent

Yes I fully get the irony of using Mr. Burns in this context.

[Marcuse]

6. Speaking of Mr. Burns, did you notice the resemblance?

[nycbos]

8. Holy cow

[The Unmitigated Gall]

25. Ah, yes...the man, the legend

Who, upon finding out that being in college was no longer enough to keep his sorry ass out of Vietnam, promptly went home and threw one bareback into his wife…because being a father still did the trick.

[Leghorn21]

2. YEAH BABY!!

[lagomorph777]

3. Good!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I can't find an article on it

[C Moon]

13. Who needs articles when there are tweets?

[littlemissmartypants]

17. ...

[csziggy]

20. It's part of this article: U.S. Spy Chiefs Reject Russia's Claims of Ukraine Bioweapons

U.S. Spy Chiefs Reject Russia’s Claims of Ukraine Bioweapons

Chris Strohm & Daniel Flatley
10:42 PM IST, 10 Mar 2022 12:24 AM IST, 10 Mar 2022

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cryptocurrency Moves
Senators questioned whether Russian officials and entities being sanctioned will be able to avoid the consequences by using cryptocurrencies. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that his bureau has more expertise and ability to stop Russians from doing end runs around sanctions using crypto than Moscow probably understands or expects.

The intelligence chiefs repeated an assessment they gave on Tuesday during a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is likely to face “a persistent and significant insurgency” after Putin misjudged how his war against Ukraine would unfold.

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/u-s-spy-chiefs-reject-russia-s-claims-of-ukraine-bioweapons
Copyright © BloombergQuint

[mitch96]

5. I was curious when this was gonna happen. Remember when the FBI recovered a good chunk

of ransom money (¾?) paid thru crypto.. Only a matter of time b4 the alphabet soup agency's figured it out. The metadata will bite you in the ass every time...Bravo!!
m

[2naSalit]

7. That assbite not only started...

The war that will finish him, he has managed to (probably) kill cryptocurrency!
If ever there was someone who manage to piss off all the rich people in the world all at once, he wins the competition.

[Alice Kramden]

29. LOL

"If ever there was someone who manage to piss off all the rich people in the world all at once, he wins the competition." - well said!

[Marcuse]

30. Maybe there really is a communist beneath the kleptocrat.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Why is Wray still there?

[wnylib]

10. Good question. Wish I knew the answer.

[Ponietz]

16. To cover up for human shite like Kavanaugh,

his good buddy from Yale Law.

[grantcart]

18. The head of the FBI is not a political position but has a fixed term

That is why Trump's firing without cause is an impeachable offense.

[FakeNoose]

21. People keep asking this question

The Director of the FBI (currently Christopher Wray but formerly James Comey) is appointed for a 10-year term. The position is not supposed to be political, because the Director doesn't "work" for a particular president. The span of the FBI Director's term is intended to outlast the president who appointed him/her and that's the reason why. When Obama appointed James Comey as Director, it was assumed that he would serve for the entire term of Obama plus Chump. It's not normal for incoming presidents to "fire" the FBI Director ESPECIALLY for political reasons. No other president besides Chump has ever done it, AFAIK. Occasionally a Director has resigned earlier than 10 years.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Good to hear. Crypto has been financing crime and terrorism for years...nt

[AllaN01Bear]

12. when are they going to seize the super boats ? theres plenty of channels on youtube tracking them.

one is heading into the suez canal, probably heading for home .

[radical noodle]

26. Italian authorities are investigating

one now called the Scheherazade that is rumored to be Putin's.

[BlueIdaho]

14. Time to prosecute any American

Doing business with Russia - regardless of currency used.

[lastlib]

15. Whack-A-Mole.....

they'll keep popping up; there is really no effective way to stop its use.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Hey, helps them earn a paycheck and who hates whack a mole?

[quakerboy]

22. Just like sanctions. And every law that people dont want to follow

Dont need to stop its use. Just need to make it so expensive and or inconvenient to putin that it becomes an unuseful way for him to try and get things done.

[quakerboy]

23. actually

Not even so much to putin, but to those who would like to receive funding from putin.

[JCMach1]

24. Put simply,.Wray knows shite about cryptocurrency...

[uponit7771]

27. K&R,

[Grokenstein]

28. Reason #7 (in a series of 8756) why republickscum hate education.

How will their owners take over the world if we keep stopping them?