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>> Blockchain is proving a more than capable solution in the ransomware payments space

> The thing is it's not really particularly good at that.

Sure, but apparently it sucks less at that than at anything else. Which would be why that's the only use case in which it's actually used as a "currency"; the law of comparative advantage and all that.

> But no part of why it's good for crime has to do with blockchain.

Well, the anonymity, one would have thought?



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