"As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the Counter Extremism Project claim that they were used to seeing various radical groups requesting donations in cryptocurrencies."

"Some analysts believe that terrorist financing has flourished because South African authorities have become too comfortable with the absence of any visible Islamic activities in South Africa.

“I don’t think South Africa realized that. It was the Americans who said ‘something wrong is going on in the country’,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project working group, told AFP."

"Separately, a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit NGO that monitors the flow of funds for terrorism and extremism, found that the illegal wildlife trade is experiencing a post-pandemic resurgence." [Translated from Indonesian]

"Months ago, when devastating earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, another major development took place. A number of ISIS fighters were able to bribe their way, using U.S. dollars, out of prisons in the region.
On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green', Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler says the money they used to escape likely came from a fund, via a refugee camp, left over from the now-defunct ISIS caliphate."

"World Geostrategic Insights interview with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on how terrorists operate and finance their activities through cryptocurrencies, the extent to which this phenomenon has been spreading in Europe and the United States, and the prospects for imposing robust regulation on the cryptocurrency industry and preventing the misuse of digital currencies for criminal activities, such as money laundering and terrorist financing."