Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc...
by cblconfederate on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:51PM
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I mean, companies are barely interacting with crypto right now, very few businesses use it for trade, but it keeps going up so i dont see how that works. US based onramps are useful only to americans, and i m sure people will seek ways to convert their dollars elsewhere, like they did for years before coinbase or other us based exchanges existed
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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc...
by CuriousSkeptic on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:55PM
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> companies are barely interacting with crypto right now
Not sure that is true
> According to security firm Sophos, 51% of organizations it sampled globally found themselves the targets of ransomware attacks in 2019. The crooks succeeded in encrypting data in 73% of these attacks. Just over a quarter of these organizations paid the ransom, or their insurance companies forked over the cash.
https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/4/251337-the-worsening...