"Countries hired mercenaries in the 18th century...In the 21st century, they buy space services from global companies.” -Clayton Swope, deputy director of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project
My @KharonData colleagues @ccjanetang & Yu-Jie Liao detail how China's commercial rocket economy is arming Iran and Russia: https://t.co/WmFI4rUed1
"A Kharon investigation found a cluster of companies...whose links to Hizballah signal a risk they could help the group retain access to critical technology and Western financial systems."
https://t.co/FZoC4TkHIB
Boom or Bust?
Europeans keep investing in a Russian drone project--But is it a military prototype or a pyramid scheme?
My @KharonData colleagues @RyanBacic & @kiyan_olga find out:
https://t.co/ql38D8wmaT
Archiving Blood Money Media today as I move to a new venture.
Grateful to everyone who read, shared, supported, and contributed.
Continuing this work under a new banner—more soon.
Archive remains available.
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent tapped Gene Lange, a Treasury counselor who worked with him at Key Square, to be administrator of the department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, following the departure of John Hurley, the TFI under secretary.
https://t.co/ivLz9xmpOb
BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April (the new rules cover all the oil already loaded in a tanker by March 5, 2026). Massive win for Putin.
Iran's terror-proxy use of #crypto was just "crowdfunding," they said.
But facts. #IncovenientTruth
Tehran embedded crypto into the exchange networks that power its shadow financial system.
https://t.co/x5flylgz9m
🕵️Call us the 'Headquarters Hunters': together with @pustota, we found the 'mail center' of the GRU 'Africa Corps.' You will – and will not – be surprised where we found it. Full thread below 🔽
Cryptocurrency’s capacity for reuse and conversion facilitates large-scale cross-border operations by transnational criminal, terrorist and state-linked actors. Illicit proceeds are generated through activities such as crypto theft, extortion, laundering, sanctions evasion, scams, fraud and terror financing. These funds converge on a small number of recurring conversion nodes, where they are converted into assets that are more difficult to trace and seize.
Explore the latest #ChartingCyberspace analysis by @JuliaVoo and Dara Eoy: https://t.co/AtiHmbsFRn
That investor is Benjamin Mauerberger. He fled Bangkok for Dubai last year as investigations mounted, yet he still managed to legitimize himself as a major UAE property player. The reality? He’s accused of laundering billions for the brutal "pig-butchering" scam compounds of Southeast Asia, syndicates that target and ruin thousands of American families. 2/4
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The mysterious Farsi-language Numbers-Station on 7910kHz, received in 🇮🇹Milan at 18:00 UTC on March 3, 2026.
Probably the most interesting radio signal in recent times.
Remember when the crypto industry scrambled to say Iran wasn't using blockchain to fund Hamas & other proxies?
"It's pocket-change fundraising"
Nope.
Evidence shows Iran & proxies wove crypto into the core financial architecture bankrolling their arms & terror operations.
Breaking the Crowdfunding Myth: The Digital Architecture Funding Iran’s Proxy Wars
Nope, not simply donations.
Iran & its proxies are operating exchange networks & blockchain pipelines as financial architecture for the regime’s Resistance Economy.
https://t.co/UJOKSjB4O4
They were criminally prosecuted for working w/ UAE's "Spy Sheikh"
But after the Sheikh's $500M crypto venture, Trump bucked years of natsec red-flags & handed him tech that could beget the intel community's worst fear: China winning the AI arms race.
https://t.co/TIxoqPhbQt