Bitcoin's Freedom Convoy Threat Vector

Dobronamerna dejanja je treba skrbno načrtovati, ko gre za varnost Bitcoina pred nadzorom države.

The Freedom Convoy bitcoin fundraiser received a lot of positive attention, gathering almost 1 million CAD in bitcoin donations. After all, what better tool could there be to circumvent the censorship of payments while protesting a government than a censorship-resistant currency free of state control? But the tactics used to distribute funds may tell a different story.

Ko kanadski sodnik zamrznila milijone dolarjev in GoFundMe donations to the Canadian trucker protests in the end of January, Bitcoiners were quick to set up a donation campaign of their own via the bitcoin crowdfunding platform Tallycoin. Ko je kampanja pridobila moč, številne ugledni Bitcoinerji izrazili svojo podporo, nekateri pa so se celo posvetovali z organizatorji o vidikih, povezanih z distribucijo, obdavčitvijo in morebitnimi pravnimi grožnjami.

Vse se je spremenilo z uveljavitvijo Zakon o izrednih razmerah kot odgovor na blokado 14. februarja 2022, v kateri je podpredsednica vlade Chrystia Freeland določeno razširitev kanadskih pravil za boj proti pranju denarja in financiranju terorizma na platforme za množično financiranje in vse oblike transakcij, vključno s kriptovalutami, s ciljem okrepiti sposobnosti organov pregona za nalaganje glob in zaporov ter prepovedati uporabo premoženja za financiranje ali podpiranje nezakonitih blokad. Istega dne uporabnik z imenom JW Weatherman pozval takojšnja razdelitev sredstev, pri čemer se obljublja, da bo sprožil pravni postopek proti uglednim podpornikom, če donacije ne bodo razdeljene pred izplačilom protesta. Seveda so številni ugledni privrženci šli v AWOL v strahu pred pravnimi grožnjami, nekateri pa so šli celo tako daleč deaktiviranje njihove račune na Twitterju.

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Not long after, discussions started to form around the smartest process to distribute funds to protesters, with many calling for accountability to prove that the funds had actually reached the protesters they were meant to support. A user called Nick, who goes by NobodyCaribou who has been highly active in the Freedom Convoy bitcoin campaign, consulted with JW Weatherman. Their goal: set up a plan to distribute funds to truckers, while maintaining full transparency over where the funds had gone.

Med zbiranjem idej za izplačilo v a javni Googlov dokument, pomisleki narasli. Ne samo, da so ljudi v javni listini spodbujali k odkritemu kaznivemu dejanju, ampak so predlagali taktike, ki bi predstavljale resna tveganja za zaseg sredstev. Ena takih taktik je video dokumentacijo of the handing over of envelopes containing bitcoin private keys to truckers, allowing recipients to be identified with the use of facial recognition software.

As the funds were distributed, videos of recipients and the handing over of bitcoin donations began circulating the web. The problem: bitcoin is censorship resistant, not censorship immune. Doxxing recipients on the world wide web can lead to the seizure of bitcoin once individuals have been identified. This is where the positive narrative for nation-states comes in — seizing a money deemed to be unseizable, scaring those who may think of using bitcoin for donations against government oppression in the future. While it’s obvious to most that possible seizures would not be a result of a failure of bitcoin’s censorship resistance but of how the disbursement of donations took place, a possible seizure of funds would give governments and media outlets grounds to claim FUD about the failure of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance itself.

Širjenje strahu, negotovosti in dvoma (FUD) je bila že desetletja vidna taktika za spreminjanje javnega dojemanja, ki jo pogosto obravnavajo kot razširitev koncepta propagande. Z ustvarjanjem FUD-a akterji širijo napačne informacije prek tretjih kandidatov, pri čemer ne ustvarjajo neposredne očitne povezave med dejanskimi pobudniki kampanje dezinformiranja in širjenjem napačnih informacij. Cilj je ustvariti trajno razdraženost v javnosti, saj napačne informacije povzročajo strah in negotovost tudi po tem, ko so tako identificirane. Medtem ko je bilo zbiranje sredstev verjetno sproženo z dobrimi nameni, da bi podprli tiste, ki uveljavljajo svojo pravico do protesta proti cepljenju, ki ga je predpisala vlada, ni jasno, zakaj sta NobodyCaribou in JW Weatherman nadaljevala s svojim načrtom distribucije tudi potem, ko so se pomisleki kopičili.

What’s clear is that with the identification of recipients and the consequential possibility of seizure of funds, the narrative of Bitcoin’s failed censorship resistance has been handed to governments and media on a silver platter, and that such a narrative can have long-lasting discouraging effects for all those in desperate need of a money to bypass oppressive state regulations. What is also clear is that all those who have aided the donation campaign can be prosecuted for terrorist financing under Canadian criminal code part 2.1 since the invoking of the Emergencies Act, ki to navaja "Vsakdo je kriva kaznivega dejanja, ki je predmet obtožnice, in je kaznovana z zaporom do 10 let, ki neposredno ali posredno, naklepno in brez zakonite utemeljitve ali opravičila zagotovi ali pobere premoženje z namenom, da se uporabi, ali vedoč, da bo se v celoti ali delno uporabiti za izvedbo (a) dejanja ali opustitve, ki predstavlja kaznivo dejanje iz pododstavkov (a)(i) do (ix) opredelitve teroristične dejavnosti v pododdelku 83.01(1) ).”

Od 22. februarja Nick, AKA NobodyCaribou, tweeted that he is now the defendant in a class action lawsuit, likely regarding the organizing of the bitcoin fundraiser. For now we can only hope that all those affected by the donation campaign will remain safe, and that not all bitcoin donated will fall into government custody.

To je objava za goste L0la L33tz. Izražena mnenja so povsem njihova in ne odražajo nujno mnenj BTC Inc oz Bitcoin Magazine.

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