{"id":34774,"date":"2021-01-15T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T09:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34774"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:07:44","slug":"chainalysis-capitol-riot-participants-received-funding-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/chainalysis-capitol-riot-participants-received-funding-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainalysis: Capitol riot participants received funding in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month before the unrest in Washington, Capitol riot participants received $522,000 in Bitcoin, according to analysts at <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blog.chainalysis.com\/reports\/capitol-riot-bitcoin-donation-alt-right-domestic-extremism\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Chainalysis<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On January 6, Trump supporters breached the Capitol, where Congress was certifying the results of the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chainalysis, on December 8 an unknown French blogger transferred 28.15 BTC to 22 wallets. The largest share (13.5 BTC) went to far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes \u2014 during the raid he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickJFuentes\/status\/1346978532837056515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> on a nearby site, the analysts said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122101\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122101\" class=\"wp-image-122101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-01-14_21-12-14.jpg\" alt=\"Chainalysis: Capitol riot participants received funding in Bitcoin\" width=\"1200\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-01-14_21-12-14.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-01-14_21-12-14-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-01-14_21-12-14-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2021-01-14_21-12-14-768x475.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-122101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Chainalysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As popular payment platforms cut ties with extremist groups and individuals, we will begin to see a broader spread of cryptocurrencies as a financing mechanism among them,&#8221; the company added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Chainalysis analysts noted <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-share-of-illegal-bitcoins-is-shrinking\">in the amount of bitcoins linked to illicit activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month before the unrest in Washington, Capitol riot participants received $522,000 in Bitcoin, according to Chainalysis analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,274,2081],"class_list":["post-34774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-chainalysis","tag-protests-in-the-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34776,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions\/34776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}