tinosaurier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWe have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareexplodiclelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoKidnappers don’t want crypto? I thought the hard part about kidnapping was getting the money without getting caught.
minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah, crypto is the farthest thing from a solution to that problem.
minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoIt’s extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.
minus-squareexplodiclelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhat about mixers, onion routed payments, Monero, etc where that isn’t the case?
Kidnappers don’t want crypto? I thought the hard part about kidnapping was getting the money without getting caught.
Yeah, crypto is the farthest thing from a solution to that problem.
Why do you think that?
It’s extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.
What about mixers, onion routed payments, Monero, etc where that isn’t the case?