Friday, March 6, 2015

Russian Lawmaker: Bitcoin is a CIA Conspiracy


From a Reader..
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The comments, made by MP Andrei Svintsov, came during remarks addressing the ongoing debate in Russia over whether bitcoin and digital currencies should be banned as part of a broader effort to stop capital flight.
Nonetheless, Svintsov’s remarks count as some of the more extreme to emanate from the discussion. Svintsov told Russian broadcast news agency REGNUM:
"All these cryptocurrencies [were] created by US intelligence agencies just to finance terrorism and revolutions.”
Svintsov reportedly went on to explain how cryptocurrencies have started to become a payment method for consumer spending, and cited reports that terrorist organisations are seeking to use the technology for illicit means.
While pointed, the statements do not seem to represent the views on bitcoin from within the federal legislature. For example, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets has stated as recently as August that she opposes criminal penalties for bitcoin use.
Svintsov has also been associated with such movements as one that would find tobacco and alcohol products removed from the windows of retail outlets.
http://www.coindesk.com/russian-politician-us-bitcoin-finance-terrorism/

2 comments:

llildur said...

I don't believe such thing, because i've read the bitcoin white paper, unless the CIA can break the cryptography there's no way to hack a worldwide distributed network like this, furthermore if the CIA use this to finance terrorism how could be unperceived to markets specially one tiny market like bitcoin without move the price up and down dramatically each time.

Anonymous said...

Re: 5:11 A.M.
WHAT?????
What you think is not proof of anything.