Overview
The Coming Storm: Terrorist Using Cryptocurrency focuses on jihadis' growing use of cryptocurrencies and the threat that this poses. It explores how these groups and individuals are already extensively fundraising in cryptocurrencies, including for attacks and for weapons and equipment purchases, for food and necessities for fighters' families, and more, and are also promoting the use of cryptocurrencies and discussing how to use them on a wide range of online platforms. The study includes the findings of the Middle East Media Research Institute's intensive monitoring of jihadis' growing sophistication over the years in using cryptocurrencies and of their promotion of them as being easy, safe, and secure to use.
Full Product Details
Author: Steven Stalinsky ,
Vincent R Stewart
Publisher: Stellar Communications
Imprint: Stellar Communications
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.807kg
ISBN: 9780967848075
ISBN 10: 0967848075
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 September 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
The first significant research of its kind to show the scope of cryptocurrency use by terrorist organizations and their supporters. . . . This landmark study shows undeniably that the future of terrorist funding and fundraising is happening now. The threat is too important to overlook; it must be researched and solutions must be arrived at, and this study is an important step in this direction. It will help educate those involved in the daily work of counterterrorism, and is a must-read for all those in government, the military, and academia who are concerned about this dangerous development. -- Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Vincent R. Stewart, former Deputy Commander of the United States Cyber Command, Special Advisor and Chairman of the MEMRI Board of Advisors
Author Information
STEVEN STALINSKY is the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East. MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that explores the Middle East and South Asia through their media, bridging the language gap between the West and the Middle East and South Asia. MEMRI provides original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends as well as timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, Urdu-Pashtu, Dari, and Turkish media into English, French, Polish, Japanese, Spanish and Hebrew. MEMRI's main office is located in Washington, DC, with branch offices in various world capitals. Lt.-Gen. (ret.) in the United States Marine Corp; former Deputy Commander of the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM); 20th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
