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The Mueller Report Episode

Behind the Bastards

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What's Better Than Bitcoin?

The GRU carried out a moderately sized Bitcoin mining operation in order to buy the computer infrastructure they use to hack the DNC. The spearfishing campaign was incredibly successful in letting the GRU access to John Podesta's emails as well as tens of thousands of other messages from other campaign staffers. One GRU unit registered the domain DC Leaks.com and then anonymized the registrant. They paid for the registration using Bitcoin that they had mined. So we'll get into the rest of this, but first, you know, what's better than money?

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