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by illiac786 282 days ago
I don’t see a good solution to this.

What’s to prevent real terrorists from creating a repo with some fake or even a functional piece of software and start funnelling money this way?

One of these cases where total surveillance seems tempting again…

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What would he the difference between this hypithetical github repo and a fake B2B service company?

Seems like the same issue already exists.

Agree. No solution in both cases, governments cannot say “it’s a donation to a guy maintaining a gothic repo, therefore it cannot be anything criminal”
Sounds horribly ineffective compared to money laundering methods already used by criminals
Yeah, I wouldn’t dismiss this possibility based on this fact alone though.