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Without bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, ransomware wouldn’t be a thing.

• sshine 3y ago
  Without networking software, ransomware wouldn't be a thing.
  • goalieca 3y ago
    If networking disappeared our economic productivity would drop massively. It would touch all parts of life in some ways. If bitcoin disappeared few people would notice except for the IT and security teams along with insurance companies who would rejoice.
    • sshine 3y ago
      Cryptocurrencies do impose more risk on society in terms of being a channel for money transfer not condoned by nation states, and as a way for people to lose their money on gambling marketed as investment. Cryptocurrencies are only better for normal people when a country's economy crashes. In the meantime they're excessively expensive. My argument is that ransomware would still be a thing. No sense in blaming the tools when they're inevitably here.