{"id":9711,"date":"2021-07-16T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/us-government-offers-cryptocurrency-in-rewards-for-justice-program\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:54:05","slug":"us-government-offers-cryptocurrency-in-rewards-for-justice-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/us-government-offers-cryptocurrency-in-rewards-for-justice-program\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Offers Cryptocurrency in \u2018Rewards for Justice\u2019 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Department of State\u2019s Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $10 million \u201cfor information on foreign malicious cyber activity against U.S. critical infrastructure.\u201d The department further said that \u201cReward payments may include payments in cryptocurrency.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of State announced Thursday that its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering a reward of up to $10 million \u201cfor information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).\u201d<br \/>\nRewards for Justice is the State Department\u2019s counterterrorism rewards program established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism. The bureau is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service. \u201cRFJ\u2019s goal is to bring international terrorists to justice and prevent acts of international terrorism against U.S. persons or property,\u201d its website describes.<br \/>\nThe announcement further reveals that the Rewards for Justice program has paid more than $200 million to more than 100 people across the globe since its inception.<br \/>\nThe program \u201chas set up a Dark Web (Tor-based) tips-reporting channel to protect the safety and security of potential sources,\u201d the Department of State noted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- growjs zone placement 31 -->   <!-- end of growjs zone placement --> <\/p>\n<p>The announcement adds that the Rewards for Justice is also \u201cworking with interagency partners to enable the rapid processing of information as well as the possible relocation of and payment of rewards to sources.\u201d Moreover, the department stated:<\/p>\n<p>Reward payments may include payments in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about the U.S. government offering to pay in cryptocurrency for information under the Rewards for Justice program? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin News<br \/>\nRegulation, department of state, informants, paid for information, paid in cryptocurrency, pay in bitcoin, pay in cryptocurrency, State Department, US government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of State\u2019s Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $10 million \u201cfor information on foreign malicious cyber activity against U.S. critical infrastructure.\u201d The department further said that \u201cReward payments may include payments in cryptocurrency.\u201d The U.S. Department of State announced Thursday that its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}