> Monero was practically never used for ransomware payments back when coinhive was active This is a kind of wrong assumption. While I agree that ransomware pay

> Monero was practically never used for ransomware payments back when coinhive was active This is a kind of wrong assumption. While I agree that ransomware payments themselves weren't done via monero or coinhive - malware on the other hand (read as: installed viruses/trojans/programs that the owner of the machine didn't consent to) was using it primarily to mine crypto coins. See [3] from my previous post: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/coinhive-miner-the-6th-most-common-malware https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime...