THE DARK SIDE OF CRYPTOS & BLOCKCHAIN: CHILD PORN
This week I've been blogging about the FTX story, and about my problems with it. I won't rehearse those problems here, because readers can read last Monday's and Wednesday's blogs. Basically put, my problems are twofold: (1) the alleged lack of record-keeping on the part of FTX and the problematic nature of those allegations when viewed against the backdrop of claims made for the blockchain and distributed ledger technology itself, and (2) the wider problem of crypt-"currencies" themselves, and their potential for becoming merely corporate coupons.
Both dangers have come home with a vengeance in the FTX story, but there is still an odor wafting over the whole phenomenon that my high octane speculations of the past two blogs cannot dispel. One reader of this site contacted me after hearing about my problems with the whole crypto phenomenon, particularly since the FTX scandal broke, and this individual sent the following two articles from just a few years ago:
https://internetofbusiness.com/bitcoin-blockchain-contains-illegal-porn-say-researchers/
Bitcoin's Blockchain Caught Loaded With Child Pornography
I'll cut right to the chase today: I strongly suspect that with these two stories we're looking at one of the hidden motivations for "the elite" for pushing the crypto-"currency" phenomenon and Central Bank Digital Currencies: they're tailor-made to support a network of human trafficking and humans could indeed form the "collateral" for such "currencies". If that seemed far-fetched, consider carefully what is stated in the second linked article says:
Lurking within Bitcoin's ever-growing blockchain is a disturbing surprise. A team of researchers say they've found links to online child pornography recorded into the technology.
The researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany claim to have uncovered the 274 links while investigating the non-financial data that's been stashed into Bitcoin's blockchain.
Unfortunately, that's not all. A pornographic image, possibly of a minor, was also scribbled into the blockchain. This all could theoretically make the blockchain illegal to possess in 112 countries, the researchers warned in a new paper(Opens in a new window) that was presented at a conference(Opens in a new window) earlier this month.
How did the sexual content get there? Although the Bitcoin blockchain is designed to record every transaction with the cryptocurrency, you can also adds snippets of non-financial data too. This has benefits. For instance, a notary service can tie a Bitcoin transaction to a digital document.
The blockchain network is decentralized, which helps make the data recorded practically immutable. But this also introduces a problem: potentially anyone can anonymously insert controversial data on the blockchain.
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Others have also warned about blockchain's dangers. Back in 2015, Interpol worried(Opens in a new window) about bad actors embedding malware and other illegal data, including child abuse images, into the technology.
Fortunately, the researchers at Aachen University didn't find any malware on Bitcoin's blockchain. Nevertheless, the researchers warned: "Illegal content has the potential to jeopardize a whole cryptocurrency."
To be clear, bitcoin holders don't need to download the entire blockchain to make transactions in the virtual currency. Many investors buy and send transfers through third-party cryptocurrency services that directly interact with the Bitcoin blockchain.
The takeaway from this is that while a crypto-"currency" itself is not necessarily tied to the possibility of such illegal activity, the technology enabling the crypto-"currency" can be, and if that is the case, then I strongly suspect that it would be possible to entangle crypt0-miners and traders to that illegal activity without their knowledge: after all, if one can hack a supposedly "secure" technology and steal $477,000,000 as we saw in our blog on the FTX scandal last Monday, then it might be possible via the same or some similar process to plant incriminating things and ultimately to blackmail people.
What intrigues me also about this story is something else, and it is profoundly disturbing, and that is the almost total lack, other than these two now-dated-stories, of any further information, articles, or news about the subject. The silence, in this case, is suspiciously deafening, but rest assured, if the phenomenon can occur and did occur on the most well-known crypto-"currency", it can occur (and most likely did) on others as well. In short, what we're looking at is a blockchain version of Catherine Austin Fitts' "control files".
But hey, other than these minor problems, Central Bank Digital Currencies are still a terrible idea...
See you on the flip side...
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Most serious and organised crime – drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking and child pornography is conducted via the Darkweb and funded via crypto or cash.This poses a problem for the Global corporate state which is – as we know – an organised crime syndicate in and of itself which is knee deep in this stuff. If you get rid of cash and get rid of all crypto except for the CBD coupon, then you’ve got a problem which is, how can organised crime function outside of the CBD system? It cant transact, it cant do business without cash or some other currency. Thus, darknet and cryptos allows the global drug and human trafficking trade to function and the Sytem can wring its hands and pretend it doesnt know who is doing what or how to stop it.
The runic “blockchain” contains ideographs, that were predictably invented in the 9th and 8th century BC, based on the 32-point compass. (That is the period, between the northern uprising in 930 BC, and deportation in 720 BC.)
In that period, it is predictable, that a critique of bloodline kingship would have produced an ideological solution, based on the compass, that, in wake of the Roman conquest in 63 BC, comes into fruition, when a runic kingship spurs exodus to Britain, in 33 AD.
In nature, the runic “blockchain” is a closed loop, that doesn’t allow exponential growth, and the codified amnesty – at every 7th year’s jubilee – hampers such Moloch tendencies, that otherwise would produce predator capitalism of empires.
The cryptocurrency phenomenon is the embryo of any empire. It is the seed of destruction, the black heart of predator capitalism.
BTW, the study of this phenomenon is dissecting the entrails of imperial functioning. Basically all empires are scam operations, at their epicenter, and cryptocurrency is an attempt to reboot an empire.
Witnessing a ‘beast birth’, the Holy Writ would say.
Since watching adult Porn is quasi-legal the new way is to harass people who like other kinds of porn it is called compartmentalization playing one harassed group against another. As for the internet and crypto-currencies, they are perfect instruments for control and oppression for any blackmailer and extortionist to use and enslave whoever they want.
> In short, what we’re looking at is a blockchain version of Catherine Austin Fitts’ “control files”.
Control files with in built, plausible deniability.
Would even professional programmers be expected to go through the code if their crypto currencies to check for CP?
This isn’t going to put anyone in court, neverlone jail, but it might well provide a good legal pathway for various government entities to squash the individual crypto currencies which are held or operated by their enemy factions.
This story ties in with an article you covered when the scandal broke which linked the ftx scandal with a child trafficking ring, wasn’t that why a Russian billionaire crypto investor was taken out in the Bahamas because he allegedly was about to spill the beans. We are dealing with a depraved and completely corrupt elite with politicians from both parties.
It’s interesting that this story is in the background when we are hearing of child trafficking and abuse allegations being made against Madonna and Jamie Leigh Curtis. What are the messages being sent here?