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by SwimSwimHungry 1725 days ago
What do you mean? Of course it is. How else has ransomware been able to thrive as of late?

The sooner governments abolish fiat to cryptocurrency exchanges and make such transactions illegal, the sooner this clown car of sadness will come to an end.

As much as I'm not a fan of China and the CCP, they are making some good moves in this department recently to eliminate unneeded capital flight. The US should follow in their steps here.

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It happens, but it isn't "the domain" like he meant. There are hundreds of millions Bitcoin users already, and the vast majority of them are not criminals. According to Chainalysis, only 0.34% of total transaction value was criminal in 2020.[0]

[0] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...