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>DID Bannon received bitcoin payments?
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FBI investigating if foreign actors funded Capitol rioters: report
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/534595-fbi-investigating-if-foreign-actors-funded-capitol-rioters-report
As part of the probe, the agency is reportedly examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin by a French computer programmer before the riot.
The French computer programmer died by suicide shortly after transferring the cryptocurrency, according to French media, NBC News reports.
Yahoo News first highlighted the bitcoin payments on Thursday, which was reported by analysis company Chainanalysis.
On Dec. 8, 28.15 BTC, which was worth $522,000 at the time of transfer, was sent to 22 different virtual wallets, many of which belonged to far-right activists, according to the report.
Most of the money went to far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes who received 13.5 BTC, according to Chainanalysis’s report, which is worth about $250,000.
Fuentes told ProPublica that he was at the rally, but didn’t enter the Capitol with the mob, NBC notes.