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by coldcode 4587 days ago
Expect organized crime to take an interest in bitcoins. Shady operators and little oversight makes it an easy target.
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They already have. CryptoLocker is raking in tens of millions of Bitcoins as ransom payments.
I think you mean tens of millions in bitcoins. There are not now (nor will there ever be), more than 2.1 tens of millions of bitcoins.
You're right, sorry! Yes, tens of millions of dollars worth of BTC.
source please
That's not "millions of bitcoins"! Also just speculations. Aren't the used wallets known?