{"id":23617,"date":"2025-05-02T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cia-deputy-director-describes-bitcoin-as-a-tool-against-china\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:22:41","slug":"cia-deputy-director-describes-bitcoin-as-a-tool-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cia-deputy-director-describes-bitcoin-as-a-tool-against-china\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Deputy Director Describes Bitcoin as a Tool Against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-descr=\"Central Intelligence Agency of the USA\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CIA<\/span> employs Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a tool against China and other geopolitical adversaries of the United States. This was stated by the agency&#8217;s Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, in a podcast with Anthony Pompliano, founder of Pomp Investments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXU3kBrKO1I?si=9-y75VJYhlZd_S0W\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to him, digital assets have become an area of technological competition between the US and China, and thus the agency uses them as &#8220;another tool in the arsenal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellis noted that Bitcoin is not an anonymous but a private system. The CIA is already collaborating with law enforcement agencies to track &#8220;illegal crypto payments made by criminals,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The agency representative emphasized that blockchain technologies provide intelligence with new opportunities to analyze the actions of adversaries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Bitcoin is not going anywhere. More institutions are accepting it \u2014 this is a trend that will continue to grow,&#8221; added the CIA Deputy Director.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in March, US President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trump-establishes-u-s-strategic-bitcoin-reserve\">signed an order<\/a> to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve based on assets confiscated by the Treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA employs Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a tool against China and other geopolitical adversaries of the United States. This was stated by the agency&#8217;s Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, in a podcast with Anthony Pompliano, founder of Pomp Investments. According to him, digital assets have become an area of technological competition between the US and China, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,133,1143,26],"class_list":["post-23617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-china","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"98","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}