Bitcoin involves no government issueing of money and hackers can easily launder bitcoins..if they were to accept fiat then they could be hunted down easily by government bodies.
Moreover Bitcoin is fast to transact.
Exactly. If I was in their place, I'd demand Dogecoin, just to be
funny and to bring the price up a bit. Imagine the news articles.
Yeah, too bad you won't get that many dogecoins.
A lot of the users affected by ransomware are not that techsavy and I've seen reports than less than 10% of the ones who are infected and want to pay the ransomware were able to buy coins and effectively pay it.
With dogecoin probably it's going to be much worse and since dogecoin it's not that heavely traded your moves will leave a lot of footprints so the authorities can track you.