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Wealth incentivizes that activity. Cryptocurrency is one easy way to transfer it, but it's not the "singular" reason ransomware is "possible." > literally bloo
by literally_lit 5y ago
Wealth incentivizes that activity. Cryptocurrency is one easy way to transfer it, but it's not the "singular" reason ransomware is "possible."
> literally blood money
("Blood money" is an idiom, a colloquial metaphor. So a virtual currency is "literally" a metaphor? Ugh.)
- fouric 5y agoCryptocurrency has properties that make many kinds of criminal activity far easier than most other kinds of "wealth". There's a reason that ransomware payments are now exclusively transferred through Bitcoin.
- splithalf 5y agoI am trying to say that Bitcoin has caused a change in the types of crimes that are being committed. It’s easily quantifiable. When I say it is blood money I mean that it is a way to pay for assassinations. Assassination markets are not new but Bitcoin as technology changes scale. Scale matters, regardless of what you believe.