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Says right in the article that they also caught her trying to sneak $9,500 USD in cash out of the country on her person. This is a non-story not sure why it wa
by pmorici 9y ago
Says right in the article that they also caught her trying to sneak $9,500 USD in cash out of the country on her person. This is a non-story not sure why it was even worth reporting. Perhaps it was notable because it is one of the few instances where someone actually used a crypto currency to send money to alleged terrorists as opposed to the thousands of known cases where they used EUR or USD.
She probably had to fly the cash to them because her BTC transaction was stuck in the mempool.
- _red 9y agoDo you remember this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-missing-iraqi-cash-ended-in-lebanon-bunker.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-... US Gov sent $14B in cash, on pallets, shrink wrapped. All went missing...whoops. Nothing was done, nobody cared.
- redblacktree 9y agoI do remember that. I did care. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do anything about it.
- jacobr 9y agoI found it notable not because of the Bitcoin transactions themselves, but because of the implications and possible effects of news like this.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago"Her lawyer, Steve Zissou, said she was sending money overseas to help Syrian refugees."