I’m not sure about this. Getting the money is the hardest part of any crime. It’s easy to plant bombs somewhere and demand cash to stop. The hard part is other than BitCoin almost any other way of collecting the money will get you caught.
How can they outlaw bitcoin that exists only in electronic impulses? Bitcoin can just disappear and no one can be held accountable.
Ban Bitcoin and they’ll use another crypto currency.
Ransomware has been around before cryptocurrency, but it definitely makes it easier for the perpetrators to get away with the money. It works like a cash handoff would, except the parties don’t need to actually meet in person.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
‘nuf said.
Nope. a couple of years before:
The city of Atlanta, Georgia was the subject of a massive cyberattack which began in March 2018. The city recognized the attack on Thursday, March 22, 2018, and publicly acknowledged it was a ransomware attack. Due to Atlanta's national importance as a transportation and economic hub, the attack received wide attention and was notable for both the extent and duration of the service outages caused.
See here: https://downdetector.com/archive/
Not all the down sites are attacks, but I'll put forth the feeling that most are.
That's because, IMHO, these "attacks" are a coordinated attack, not on the individual and numerous companies, but BTC itself. The purpose is to take down BTC.
BTC today is half of what it was two weeks ago, hovering around $32k. The Chinese are stopping their mining where most BTC is created. 3GD is threatened.
BTC has had a shadowy creator - for a reason. It's Deep State Cabal dark money. BTC was created by the CIA for nefarious purposes.
Unfortunately, their nefarious purposes are masked by innocent investors buying lots of BTC, who could be caught holding the bag.
BTC is going to $0. Exactly, no more no less.
Agreed, banning bitcoin solves nothing. Bitcoin is actually pretty darn open, traceable, you can see activity on the public ledger and trace wallet to wallet transactions. I’m not sure why hackers favor it, there are better crypto technologies out there, Monero for example is all about anonymity. Or ya know, the old paper dollar, pretty tough to track as well.