tinosaurier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoWe have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1350arrow-down19
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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·23 days agoWhy only the crypto rich? Any rich person can just buy crypto at an exchange at this point.
minus-squareZenith@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoThose people don’t want crypto or they would do just that
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoKidnappers don’t want crypto? I thought the hard part about kidnapping was getting the money without getting caught.
minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoYeah, crypto is the farthest thing from a solution to that problem.
minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-221 days agoIt’s extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoWhat about mixers, onion routed payments, Monero, etc where that isn’t the case?
Why only the crypto rich? Any rich person can just buy crypto at an exchange at this point.
Those people don’t want crypto or they would do just that
Kidnappers don’t want crypto? I thought the hard part about kidnapping was getting the money without getting caught.
Yeah, crypto is the farthest thing from a solution to that problem.
Why do you think that?
It’s extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.
What about mixers, onion routed payments, Monero, etc where that isn’t the case?