2026-05-14
Govts have paid spies using cryptocurrency
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- Contains politically sensitive info
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- In 1994, Timothy May wrote about Blacknet 1 2 3, which would allow you to create anonymous cryptocurrency bounties in return for leaked information, even classified information.
- During operation of wikileaks, Assange also published cryptocurrency bounties for leaking information to him.
- Govts have also paid spies using cryptocurrency, although the amounts are much smaller than I imagined. Not posting examples right now, you can ask AI (gpt-5.5 reasoning: high web_search: enabled) for examples.
- It seems only a matter of time until someone scales up the amounts, correct? It only takes one govt to increase the bounty amounts, for this to become normalised.
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