EU to clamp down on bitcoin, anonymous payments to curb terrorism funding

``EU interior and justice ministers will gather in Brussels on Friday for a crisis meeting called after the Paris carnage of last weekend. They will urge the European Commission, the EU executive arm, to propose measures to "strengthen controls of non-banking payment methods such as electronic/anonymous payments and virtual currencies and transfers of gold, precious metals, by pre-paid cards," draft conclusions of the meeting said.'' -- No word on whether the terrorists even used bitcoin, let alone whether it was some sort of critical requirement to getting weapons in the Belgian ghetto...