And what about the more statistically likely scenario that Cheryl from accounting opened a fake invoice PDF because she doesn't know what file extensions are.

They paid it when BTC was in the neighborhood of $55,000 ea and now it's $34,000. So there's that.

Being that careless about security and staff training should be illegal. Wait, isn't it? Isn't it negligence or something?

Oh good, the dumb boomer politicians are trying to be trendy and modern without knowing what the hell they're talking about. The transaction fee to send ANY AMOUNT OF BITCOINS is around $15 USD right now. So it costs $15 to send $5. Anyone with a brain will tell you to use Litecoin since it's one of the top 10 largest except that has a safe confirmation time of like 30 minutes. So move on to one of the ones that confirms in seconds...oh wait, there's hundreds of them and they're all small enough for a 51% attack if they catch on too quickly. Oh and keep my live savings in one exchange that isn't FDIC insured? Okay, I'll get right on that. Sounds safe to me. WAIT, NO, I'll keep my life savings on my phone's flash memory and hope it never fails or gets stolen. Now THAT is how you use crypto.

Crypto isn't practical for everyday use and it never will be. It's not safe and it never will be. People aren't smart or careful enough to use it safely and they never will be. THE END.

"Co-founder Chad Sneed noted that he doesn't see any privacy issues."
Anyone have his home address?

Nah, fam, it was because 19 million years ago Discovery Channel skipped Shark Week.

Yeah, free speech really isn't compatible with their attempts to rig/influence the election and suppress information harmful to the democrats.

Make it a felony to pay a ransom. Done. It ends. No more attacks in the US. They're not going to do it if there's a 0% chance of getting paid.

I've worked in professional IT and know a lot of others who do as well. This happened because the more old commercial and industrial the company is, the less they know or care about spending on proper IT infrastructure, backups, stable and up to date software, etc. The worst of the worst of the worst is trucking companies, mechanics, etc. Second worst from what I hear is food manufacturers because of their margins. Third worst are American call centers. I know one that went through 3 CIOs in 3 years after their first one set up a fundamentally non-working, slow, dumb terminal shit show of a system.

The older the business segment and the worse the margins because of foreign competition, the crappier the IT infrastructure. So surprise surprise, a meat packing company got hit instead of a 10 year old medical insurance company. I'M SHOCKED.

9th and 10th gen were overheating, underperforming, self-destructing garbage that ran at 99C if you were lucky because laptop makers are too stupid to listen to their customers and add 3 oz more of heatsink and a larger fan. So they just ship defective garbage. Don't buy this 5GHz nonsense. You'll never see it for more than 1 second.

For anyone about to say that anyone who commits any crime should get caught by any method possible so this is innovating and fine, do you trust EVERY judge, lawyer, district attorney, governor, and cop in the entire country? Zero of them are angry, crooked, lazy, racist, activists? Because if you think that you're living in a fantasy.

My 3080 would make around a penny a year mining BTC.

" that the social media company has been disproportionately silencing Palestinian voices on its apps"
Well, they're always the aggressors, are brought up by their parents to be anti-Semitic racists, and they hide behind civilians while launching rockets so they can use their deaths as propaganda. Let me put this in cartoonishly simple terms. THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS.

Actually, they're mining Ethereum primarily. Literately nobody is mining Bitcoins with GPUs. The ASICs out now are 300,000x as power efficient as a GPU.

But the 10,000,000,000,000 cash app scams, fortnite malware, and fraudulent dating app ads are fine though.