Ian Talley

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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. nytimes.com/live/2026/03/0…

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.

Want a clear-eyed status check on the war with Iran? Worth the five minute read.

@IanTalley How am I just realizing you have a Substack now? Looks great, and I can't wait to dig in! Already subscribed :)

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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. bloodmoneymedia.com/p/breaking-the…

🕵️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: bit.ly/4cpxvYv

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

👀⚠️ 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.

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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. thisisbeirut.com.lb/articles/13328…

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. bloodmoneymedia.com/p/trumps-spy-s…

Top Trump aide Wiles may testify at Rivera’s trial on being a Venezuelan agent Read more at: #storylink=cpy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…

Maduro's in custody. Why aren't these guys? Many top henchmen who built, armed, & ran Venezuela’s criminalized state are still at large, commanding militias, controlling territory & still presiding over narco-&terror-linked networks. bloodmoneymedia.com/p/the-venezuel…

U.S. tanker seizures: 5/6 vessels are tied to Iranian shadow-fleets, including IRGC-Quds Force & Hezbollah. 3 tied to Russia. This is about the global Axis of Evasion: bloodmoneymedia.com/p/latest-tanke…