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Bitcoin is pretty easy to trace.

Could more easily disappear if paid in cash.



Seems to work well enough for ransomware...


Actually, no it doesn't.

For example, the FBI was able to partially recover the Colonial Pipeline ransom, although that seems to be in part because the perpetrators were stupid by trying to sell it on a US exchange, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware_a...

Criminals don't use bitcoin anymore.

They use cash and monero.




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