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Re:The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion by xorcist on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:47AM (#8662807)
Cash survived thousands of years with this weakness. I'm sure cryptocurrencies would, too.

In fact, it would be easier to make the case that this was you money, thanks to the transparency of the block chain (and the fact that you have the keys).

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Re:The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion by codeshaman on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:15PM (#8663728)
True, the only difference is that cash (or any physical store of value, like gold) becomes cumbersome in large amounts. And random people having large amounts of cash or gold in their apartment is pretty rare.

1000 BTC on the other hand have no physical form so it's much more convenient.

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