Friday 12 June 2015

Virginia teen pleads guilty to teaching Bitcoin to ISIS

Virginia teen pleads guilty to teaching Bitcoin to ISIS

A Virginia teenager has pleaded guilty to using Twitter to teach members of the terrorist Islamic State how to use Bitcoin. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, admitted Thursday that he was behind the the now-suspended Twitter account @Amreekiwitness, which at one point had over 4,000 followers. Through it, according to a Department of Justice statement on Amin, he provided instructions on how to use the world’s dominant online cryptocurrency...
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