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Yeah, I know leftists hate crypto but this shit legit is making me want some.
I know crypto sucks in a lot of functional ways but those issues can probably be sorted out eventually. I don't want to let puritanical authoritarian dipshits dictate what I can buy with my fucking money, or even see if they start also fuck with hosting of free content as well.
I don't even buy porn games, doesn't matter. Its the principle of the thing. And this shit can easily get worse if we let them.
Here's the issue: How do you put money into crypto or take it out? A payment processor is how.
Crypto mostly just reinvents the same things. Its also usually not actually anonymous, as has been proved many times.
Crypto also single-handedly invented ransomware. Like without Crypto, random Russian and North Korean hackers aren’t financially incentivized to target towns, hospitals, small businesses etc. There are legitimate payment processors other than just Visa.
I mean, ransomware as a thing has been around since the 90s. Crypto may have been the main factor in its skyrocketing prevalence, but it didnt "single-handedly invent" or facilitate the idea of ransomware.
That’s a nominally correct answer at best, like the scale of ransomeware then required the target to be in physical reach so you can physically hand off cash or equivalents. North Korea couldn’t extract money from Americans so they had no incentive to do so.
Lol at the crypto shills hiding behind that though. “it always existed so it’s ok” get out of here
I’ll take nominally correct. I’ll also take “I can’t handle being corrected so I insult people to feel better” for $200, Alex.
My main point was that ransomware is massively facilitated by crypto, but you’re arguing semantics to run interference from addressing that point.
Here’s a simple yes/no question. If crypto disappeared overnight, would the ransomware industry generate even 1% of the net income it makes now?
I genuinely do not understand why my comment has made you feel the need to repeatedly insult me. You seem to agree with my point but then continuously shit on me for seeking a state of correctness in lieu of the inaccurate hyperbole of your op.
First I don’t know what insults you’re talking about, unless just the act of disagreeing with you is insulting.
Second, I used one expression to make a point, which was that crypto is foundational to the existence of ransomware, specifically on the massive scale it exists today. And then in every subsequent comment I have explained that said point is my main argument. And yet you keep ignoring that point and instead hyper-fixate on some combination of semantic pedantry and perceived victimhood.
Never thought about it before y'all's discussion, but how did they take payment before crypto? Gift cards like the phone scammers?
I shit you not, literally mailing money to a PO Box in Panama.
They didn’t, ransomware pre-bitcoin was basically just regular scams. Not even close to comparable to what goes on today.