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In 2011, a colleague and I wrote a very inconvenient story for the global financial system. An official screamed and cursed at me. The IMF pressured the paper to take the story off the site (they did not). We were called liars. It took a couple of years, but the IMF finally.

Again, @chainalysis’s Levin, queried by @FinancialCmte, says cryptocurrency is ineffective for Hamas crowdfunding, but doesn’t say anything about how Iran has commandeered an entire network of MSBs. Why?.

@chainalysis @FinancialCmte @elliptic To be clear—because it’s not in the @chainalysis post—the $450K figure widely cited as a refutation of @Elliptic’s figures is based on a completely different seizure, a different wallet, different dataset & even different terror group.

@chainalysis @FinancialCmte If that’s the case, then why does @chainalysis assert that the terror-finance portions in the seizure analyzed by @elliptic is just a fraction of the flows, while saying that it has no information beyond what’s on the blockchain?.

@chainalysis’s Levin at the @FinancialCmte says that in order to determine how much of a flow of crypto transactions is terror-finance requires government intelligence….kinda like those cited in these two articles:.

Why does @chainalysis’s Levin at @FinancialCmte, continue to frame Hamas crypto use as simply “crowdfunding,” despite substantial & mounting evidence Iran, not just individuals, is using crypto as part of its large-scale Hamas financing?

@gregoryclisa The second is this one, which addresses other points raised by the @FinancialCmte witnesses, including @chainalysis & @gregoryclisa:

The first is this one, which (inadvertently) discusses many of @gregoryclisa prepared remarks, including understanding MSBs in terror-finance & the risk of getting it wrong:.

Re-upping two threads ahead of @FinancialCmte hearing "Crypto Crime in Context: Breaking Down the Illicit Activity in Digital Assets" with @Chainalysis @Consensys @gregoryclisa .

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic 👀👀👀@mikejcasey @coinbase @muneeb @nic__carter et al.

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic That's why I would encourage @RibbitCapital's Brooks, @chainalysis's Fierman, @SignCurve and others to take a gander at the full thread here, because of the risk that confirmation bias and self-interested analysis poses:

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic I agree with @chainalysis's Fierman that "there needs to be that more holistic analysis," and with @RibbitCapital's Brooks, that "everybody including regulators. politicians. industry. journalists need to take responsibility for leaning in and to providing those facts."

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic And that's not including all the other munitions, drones, and basic supplies.

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic Let's just take one of the weapons Hamas is using, Qassam rockets, which the group claimed to have fired 5,000 on just the first day:.Taking a median range of $550 of reported costs.x 5,000 = $2.8M x 40 days = $110Mln.

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic Back-of-the-envelope figures to get some idea of costs Hamas is fielding:.1) From our other reporting on Hamas financing, "The paycheck indicates a wage of 5,000 shekels a month, or $1,260. " .x 12 months = $15K x 1,400 Oct. 7 fighters = $21M/yr.And we know Hamas has far more.

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic Addressing the question of cost raised by @chainalysis's Fierman, I would point out that neither the Oct. 7 attack or subsequent fighting would be an inexpensive, crowdfunding-type of financing need.

@RibbitCapital @SignCurve @chainalysis @Unchained_pod @elliptic In doing so, and again to prevent further misrepresentations, one might also note the important caveats that were provided in our initial reporting: