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tinosaurier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica

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We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica

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tinosaurier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution
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Wave of crypto kidnappings hits Europe.
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    Why only the crypto rich? Any rich person can just buy crypto at an exchange at this point.

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      Those people don’t want crypto or they would do just that

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        Kidnappers don’t want crypto? I thought the hard part about kidnapping was getting the money without getting caught.

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          Yeah, crypto is the farthest thing from a solution to that problem.

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            Why do you think that?

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              It’s extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.

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                What about mixers, onion routed payments, Monero, etc where that isn’t the case?

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