Bitcoin, Stop Apologizing for Victimless Crime
Bitcoin is a freedom currency in a manner that isn’t obvious and which is virtually undiscussed. Bitcoin is commonly linked to victimless crime, but the dynamic reaches far deeper than merely freeing individuals to buy goods and services, unsavory or not. Victimless crime is the lifeblood of the surveillance state without which big government could not....
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Rights Brigade, a New Hampshire-based rights group, is using a Bitcoin-fueled approach to activism to prevent victimless crime culprits from going to jail. The purpose of its Jury Nullification Outreach Campaign is to educate Jurors about their rights so that they could avoid sending innocent people to prison. Statistics show that 86 percent of Americans go to jail for victimless crimes like substance use and public order disturbance. It is tough to understand why people are incarcerated for hurting no one but themselves. Cointelegraph spoke to Joel Valenzuela the founder of the Rights....
An organization called the American Black Cross is a recognized 501 (c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. political prisoners. The charitable group was inspired by the Ross Ulbricht case, whom many believe is a political prisoner incarcerated for victimless crimes. As the new year approaches, bitcoiners can donate to this cause that helps a growing....
Charlie Shrem, aka, 'Four Finger Charlie', has posted his goodbye blog and will be surrendering himself to Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp (Pennslyvania) on March the 30th. Charlie was arrested last year and convicted at the end of 2014 for crimes against the US Government in their endless War on Drugs. Sentenced to two year's imprisonment for knowingly allowing a Silk Road user, (Robert Faiella) to trade bitcoins through the now defunct exchange BitInstant. Charlie was charged with conspiring to sell over $1 million worth of bitcoins to Silk Road users, and had to forfeit $950,000. The....
A spokesman for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division told a Senate subcommittee hearing that virtual currencies such as Bitcoin are vulnerable to organized crime. “We have seen increasing use of such currencies by drug dealers, traffickers of child pornography, and perpetrators of large-scale fraud schemes,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman told Congress. The anonymity and untraceability of digital currencies makes them ripe for crime, making law enforcement investigations significantly harder. What’s more, the currencies have no controls in place to stop illegal....
According to the National Crime Agency, a UK citizen is among fifty six arrested this week in relation with cyber-crime after an intensive probe into hacking at the United States Department of Defence. The British man a twenty three year old was arrested in Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands by the NCA on suspicion of offences linked to stolen data from a messaging service used around the world by employees of the DOD. The US Department of Defence Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) teamed up with the National Crime Agency to make this arrest. “This arrest underscores DCIS commitment....