Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta...
by vmception on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:13PM
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There is investment infrastructure. Mostly informal and enforced via smart contract and multisignature transactions. Organized on forums and chat rooms.
Not much capital is needed though and the affiliate and licensing model is better, which also just means an address is hardcoded that splits payment, or a server controls the private key (or master private key for infinite unique address creation) to addresses and automatically splits received payments to the RaaS service
I get that was supposed to be a joke, its exactly the same or even more streamlined than the licit economy. There is no major distinction except the kinds of “risk factors” one might list.
Not much capital is needed though and the affiliate and licensing model is better, which also just means an address is hardcoded that splits payment, or a server controls the private key (or master private key for infinite unique address creation) to addresses and automatically splits received payments to the RaaS service
I get that was supposed to be a joke, its exactly the same or even more streamlined than the licit economy. There is no major distinction except the kinds of “risk factors” one might list.