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Title: [12-12-30] Over $1 million paid In bitcoin to kidnappers as ransom before... Post by: SlipMart on December 30, 2017, 03:09:50 PM https://bitzamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bitcoin-696x522.jpg
Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a United Kingdom-registered Cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million (£740,000) in bitcoins as ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday. Pavel Lerner, a leading analyst and blockchain expert, was abducted by unknown masked people on 26 December, according to a statement by his company, EXMO Finance, on its website. Read More: https://bitzamp.com/over-1-million-paid-in-bitcoin-to-kidnappers-as-ramsom/ (https://bitzamp.com/over-1-million-paid-in-bitcoin-to-kidnappers-as-ramsom/) Title: Re: [12-12-30] Over $1 million paid In bitcoin to kidnappers as ransom before... Post by: Taki on December 30, 2017, 05:43:07 PM Can't they just follow the transaction and find the criminal? As I know that's what the police do to find crypto criminals. All this story is negative for bitcoin, no matter that kidnapers ask for dollars or euro or what ever over the world, I believe the government may use this story for crypto banning or rough regulation.
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