Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped on February 1 and her family now face paying a $6M BTC ransom. The post Mother of Olympics TV host kidnapped for bitcoin ransom appeared first on Protos.
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Honest question: why do these people always demand payment in Bitcoin FFS?
Bitcoin has an unencrypted blockchain and does not use Tor. Governments and even some private companies (eg cyphertrace) can often track stuff even after “mixing”
Anyone buying drugs on the darknet knows that Monero has been coin of the realm for years. Blockchain encrypted, IP addrs obfuscated…
Why don’t these ostensible big time criminals use the chosen coin of so many active criminals?
Because you can’t buy Monero from an ATM, and cash is highly traceable.
