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Re:Illinois Hospital First to Shut Down After Ransomware Attack by DoItToMe81 on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:36AM (#36357227)
Or people deemed to not deserve access to services (the entire nation of Russia recently). Or people who were cut off from payment processing, like Wikileaks.
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Re:Illinois Hospital First to Shut Down After Ransomware Attack by mjburgess on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:54AM (#36357603)
If crypto was, at any point, not a tool of the rich elite of those countries then immediately, it would be banned.

Crypto isn't magic -- indeed, it's vastly more sensitive to state control, since anyone in control over any local part of the network can completely disable the system.

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