There are plenty of reasons not to steal and extort, like personal ethics or a fear of getting caught. If it were easier to mine than steal or extort, gangs wou

There are plenty of reasons not to steal and extort, like personal ethics or a fear of getting caught. If it were easier to mine than steal or extort, gangs would be running mining operations instead of wasting their time with theft and ransomware. A hostile cyber army would need mining to be twice as effective at raising funds as theft or ransomware, since stealing 1 BTC drains your reserves and adds to theirs, whereas mining only adds to theirs. > Such is the nature of the Bitcoin game. I assume from this sentence in your comment and from your bio ("Character account — I only play a Bitcoin maximalist on the internet") that this is just performance art/trolling for you, so I'll wrap up my end of the discussion here.