Bitcoin Back Above $62K as Crypto Market Calms After Reports of Limited Damage From Israeli Attack
Iran’s first strike on Israel pushed down crypto and risk assets, while leading to a spike in gold.
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Iran’s first strike on Israel pushed down crypto and risk assets, while leading to a spike in gold.
The cryptocurrency market lost $430 billion in capitalization since April 12, amid an unprecedented Iranian offensive against Israel. Traders lost … Continue reading
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The plaintiffs, who are also suing Iran and Syria, say the crypto exchange facilitated the financing of Hamas and other terrorist groups between 2017 and 2023.
Legislation will crack down on terrorist organizations like Hamas by applying sanctions to foreign parties that facilitate financial transactions with terrorists.
Almost two-thirds of Israel’s Tron seizures were in 2023, including 39 from wallets Israel said in June were owned by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and 26 in July from Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Despite a raging online debate discrediting the scale of crypto support for terrorist groups, the story continues to resonate in important places. Most recently on Thursday, the ranking Democrat at a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives quoted a figure of $130 million in digital assets flowing to terrorists.
U.S. lawmakers Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) and Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) have urged the Department of Justice to “expeditiously conclude” investigations and reach a decision on charging Binance and Tether for aiding terrorism financing for Hamas.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has said the Senate Banking Committee will “crack down on the use of crypto to fund terrorism and evade sanctions” at a time when the U.S. must stand with both Ukraine and Israel as they fight back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian-backed terrorists like Hamas.
The revelations that the terrorist group behind last week’s attack on villages in southern Israel that left more than 1,200 Israelis dead was partially funded with cryptocurrency may lend additional weight to an effort from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and others to push for a law targeting money laundering and sanctions abuses in crypto.
The organization will host a multi-signature wallet to collect donations in multiple cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) as well as the dollar-linked stablecoins USDT and USDC.