Lets take a singular target, the W brothers of FB fame.
It was touted that they bout up a % of bitcoin... and profited handsomly.
Is it anyone's business where they directed these funds? What have they done with it?
So - it was that bitcoin was opaque to imperial entanglements, to make more personal freedom from over-arching systems - yet we have seen how clever finance is to protect finance (which you dont understand)
We have illustrated this time and time again;
ART was the original bitcoin money laundering system.
An NFT - that can be valued only because there was a singular producer capable of making that piece, thus - if I value our interaction of a binary transaction of 1 (i have thing) and 0 (you dont have thing) - then I transfer my thing, to you who can physically hold it, then you have 1 and I have 0.
Everything is better analyzed in comparison. How much illegal activity has US Dollar enabled? How about Euro, Japanese Yen? I would like to see the comparative analysis first.
The point is that cryptocurrency enables an entire category of crime that was for all practical purposes infeasible otherwise. There is no way for ransomware actors to demand payment through traditional financial institutions without getting caught very quickly.
We can easily compare the amount of ransomware activity enabled by crypto (all of it) with the amount of the same activity enabled by the US dollar (none of it).
This comment would be significantly better if you had stopped before the personal attack. Maybe take a second to review the community guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's essentially impossible to pay millions of dollars in cash. Plus, it's literally impossible to collect cash from an attack made from halfway across the world.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 48.2 ms ] threadLets take a singular target, the W brothers of FB fame.
It was touted that they bout up a % of bitcoin... and profited handsomly.
Is it anyone's business where they directed these funds? What have they done with it?
So - it was that bitcoin was opaque to imperial entanglements, to make more personal freedom from over-arching systems - yet we have seen how clever finance is to protect finance (which you dont understand)
We have illustrated this time and time again;
ART was the original bitcoin money laundering system.
An NFT - that can be valued only because there was a singular producer capable of making that piece, thus - if I value our interaction of a binary transaction of 1 (i have thing) and 0 (you dont have thing) - then I transfer my thing, to you who can physically hold it, then you have 1 and I have 0.
Super simple.
So the W twins, basically did this, correct?
We can easily compare the amount of ransomware activity enabled by crypto (all of it) with the amount of the same activity enabled by the US dollar (none of it).
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/