[kemonocode]

Then you hire the services of brokers that don't have the same compunctions about transacting in crypto. And even if you were to magically erase all cryptocurrency from the earth, it wouldn't still stop ransomware, or the same state sponsored actors would gravitate towards even worse things.

It's like nobody has learned a thing from the war on drugs, my point being: you deal with the root cause of the disease (infosec in most companies and even government offices is a joke and bad people have taken notice), not playing whack-a-mole with the symptoms (crypto use) that hint towards systemic decay.

[mike00632]

The root cause is the blackmailers/thieves committing the crime, not that the crime was easy. Addressing the root cause might include things like improving education and reducing poverty. That in combination with a bam on paying ransoms would likely reduce these crimes.