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by duxup 614 days ago
Most kidnappings seem to involve kidnapping people who do in fact have the resources to pay to some extent.

They don’t seem to occur in a speculative fashion where “maybe this person can pay…”.

Anyone who knows, knows the coins haven’t been touched in a suspiciously long time, and moving Bitcoin is not always anonymous…

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> They don’t seem to occur in a speculative fashion where “maybe this person can pay…”.

For potentially tens of billions of dollars, I'm willing to bet that some criminals would make an exception.

They haven’t yet.