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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by dragonelite on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:58AM (#30270131)
Yeah somehow those crypto expert on social media don't even think about it, when they shout bitcoin will fix this.
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by afiori on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:06AM (#30270578)
To be fair there are some cc* that try to address this. Apparently signal was forced to choose the relatively unknown MobileCoin exactly to avoid this problem.

*cryptocurrency is too long

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by latexr on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:35AM (#30271499)
> cc*

That’s “credit card”. We’ve already lost “crypto”(graphy), let’s avoid deliberately giving away other common shorthands.

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