<p><a href="/tags/influencergate/" rel="tag">#InfluencerGate</a>:</p><p>oh look the russian agents trying to influence the election are using <a href="/tags/cryptocurrency/" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> (this is my not-shocked-at-all face)</p><p>also popular YouTube influencers Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, <a href="/tags/laurenchen/" rel="tag">#LaurenChen</a>, and one of Benny Johnson/Dave Rubin "unknowingly" agreed to work for Russia for large sums of money ($100,000 per youtube video or a few million/year): <a href="https://x.com/ariehkovler/status/1831413692409487766" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="x.com/ariehkovler/status/1831413692409487766"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/ariehkovler/status/18314</span><span class="invisible">13692409487766</span></a></p><p>in particular the russian agents seem to have moved money through <a href="/tags/lithuania/" rel="tag">#Lithuania</a> and used <a href="/tags/bitpay/" rel="tag">#BitPay</a> to buy domains. i wrote a bunch about the Lithuanian central bank's attempts to shut down Russian money last year; it's here (an US company Crypto[.]com is involved): <a href="https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocom-or-crypto-dot-con" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocom-or-crypto-dot-con"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cry</span><span class="invisible">ptocom-or-crypto-dot-con</span></a></p><p>DOJ affidavit: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/dop</span><span class="invisible">pelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf</span></a></p><p>taking bets on whether Virtual Currency Exchange 1 ("VCE-1") is <a href="/tags/binance/" rel="tag">#Binance</a> or <a href="/tags/cryptocom/" rel="tag">#CryptoCom</a></p><p><a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/election2024/" rel="tag">#election2024</a> <a href="/tags/2024election/" rel="tag">#2024election</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/putin/" rel="tag">#Putin</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/vladímirputin/" rel="tag">#VladímirPutin</a> <a href="/tags/timpool/" rel="tag">#TimPool</a> <a href="/tags/bennyjohnson/" rel="tag">#BennyJohnson</a> <a href="/tags/laurensouthern/" rel="tag">#LaurenSouthern</a> <a href="/tags/daverubin/" rel="tag">#DaveRubin</a> <a href="/tags/changenow/" rel="tag">#ChangeNow</a> <a href="/tags/tenetmedia/" rel="tag">#TenetMedia</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a></p>