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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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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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    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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