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Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex by shkkmo on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:53AM (#22181836)
Untraceability sidesteps getting courts or lawmakers to give you legal status as money. I don't see why governments have any motivation to extend this protection to cryptocurrencies as it would seem to mainly facilitate crime without providing any benefit in terms of encouraging adoption of government controlled currency.
Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex by FDSGSG on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:38PM (#22193356)
>I don't see why governments have any motivation to extend this protection to cryptocurrencies

The governments don't need to do this, the courts do. There's an existing principle they could very cleanly apply here.