Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
by josu on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:15PM
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Yeah, same issue with Nobel inventing the dynamite. Just because some people are going to use it for unethical purposes, it doesn't mean that we have to stop the advance of science and technology. Besides, it seems that Bitcoin was inevitable, the internet needs its own decentralized currency.
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
by istjohn on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:03AM
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> The internet needs its own decentralized currency
Why?
Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
by ric2b on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:33AM
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Because why shouldn't I be able to make an online service and easily allow people to pay for it?
Currently you have to setup accounts with multiple companies in many different countries and pay fees to all of them, it's an absolute mess.