National Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment

doi:10.7249/RR1231

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DOI	10.7249/RR1231
报告编号	RR-1231-OSD
	National Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment
	Joshua Baron; Angela O'Mahony; David Manheim; Cynthia Dion-Schwarz
	2015
出版年	2015
页数	96
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	This report examines the feasibility for non-state actors, including terrorist and insurgent groups, to increase their political and/or economic power by deploying a virtual currency (VC) for use in regular economic transactions. A VC, such as Bitcoin, is a digital representation of value that can be transferred, stored, or traded electronically and that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority, nor necessarily attached to a fiat currency (dollars, euros, etc.), but is accepted by people as a means of payment. We addressed the following research questions from both the technological and political-economic perspectives: (1) Why would a non-state actor deploy a VC? That is, what political and/or economic utility is there to gain? How might this non-state actor go about such a deployment? What challenges would it have to overcome? (2) How might a government or organization successfully technologically disrupt a VC deployment by a non-state actor, and what degree of cyber sophistication would be required? (3) What additional capabilities become possible when the technologies underlying the development and implementation of VCs are used for purposes broader than currency? This report should be of interest to policymakers interested in technology, counterterrorism, and intelligence and law enforcement issues, as well as for VC and cybersecurity researchers.
英文关键词	Cybercrime Banking and Financial Services Terrorism Financing Information Privacy The Internet Electronic Commerce Information Security Students
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4182
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Joshua Baron,Angela O'Mahony,David Manheim,et al. National Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment:RAND Corporation,2015.