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What I want to see a source for is your claim that there is hard evidence for the opposite of "net crime being reduced", not random anecdotes and opinion pieces
by leppr 5y ago
What I want to see a source for is your claim that there is hard evidence for the opposite of "net crime being reduced", not random anecdotes and opinion pieces.
I see nothing there indicating a quantitative increase in crime victims or number of crimes being committed due to cryptocurrency.
- brazzy 5y agoThere's entire new forms of crime being enabled by cryptocurrency. Most notably, ransomware is doing 20 billion dollars worth of damage annually (increasing quickly), and depends pretty much 100% on cryptocurrency for payment: https://cybersecurityventures.com/global-ransomware-damage-costs-predicted-to-reach-20-billion-usd-by-2021/ https://cybersecurityventures.com/global-ransomware-damage-c...