Actual news, not @GreatDismal novel: Robin Hood hacker donates $11K of stolen Bitcoin to help fight ISIS https://t.co/MhnyEoz3Sn
— Wagner James Au (@slhamlet) May 19, 2016
Seriously, says Newsweek:
A Kurdish region of Syria that borders territory held by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has received an $11,000 donation in allegedly stolen bitcoin from a vigilante hacker. The pseudonymous Phineas Fisher donated 25 bitcoins to a crowdfunding campaign set up by members of the Rojava region’s economic committee, described by Fisher as “one of the most inspiring revolutionary projects in the world.”
Ironically, this means that a virtual currency often associated with funding terrorism is now helping fund the fight against terrorism. Perhaps even more ironically, the Kurdish peshmerga are pretty much the only people with an actual serious motive for using Bitcoin to buy goods and services -- because no one else does.
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