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Monday, March 28, 2022
Why does crypto work for Russian ransomware, but it wasn't useful for the Ottawa truckers?
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[This is a repost of my recent article for CoinDesk exploring why bitcoin has been demonstratively useful for certain illegal activities, l...
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Friday, June 11, 2021
Why do ransomware gangs like bitcoin? It's the censorship resistance
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A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware . Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But...
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Sunday, October 4, 2020
The ECB's digital euro: anonymous or not?
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The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published a report that explores the idea of introducing a digital euro for use by the general p...
Monday, May 11, 2020
Why Fedcoin
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Six years ago I wrote a blog post about Fedcoin. Fedcoin is a type of central bank digital currency, or CBDC. (I called it Fedcoin at th...
Monday, January 27, 2020
What happens when a 96 bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex?
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"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bi...
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