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Exactly. We need to ban, and aggressively prosecute the use of crypto to prevent this. Useful side-effect: reduction of ransomware attacks.



You're going to have to find a different way to deal with that. Without completely changing the way the US government and justice system works I don't think that's possible.


I don’t know about banning crypto to stop ransomware attacks, if we followed that train of thought we shouldn’t even have an internet where people can steal personal information.


That has worked terrible with the war in drugs. How do you think its going to work when no smuggling us required and anyone with a solar panel and a satellite dish can mine?


Is this sarcasm/hyperbole? There’s nothing wrong with cryptography.




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