🤔 Another US indictment links bitcoin to covert Russian intelligence activity

Seven alleged Russian intelligence agents were indicted with using cryptocurrencies as part of a broad "influence and disinformation" scheme by the U.S. Department of Justice. The indictment indicates investigators were able to track the machines used to initiate bitcoin ($BTC) transactions, noting that the defendants sent bitcoin payments from the same computers used to conduct some "hacking activity."

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