<p dir="ltr">On Mar 23, 2016 4:23 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> If so, does not bitcoin enable kidnapping?</p>
<p dir="ltr">No more than money and the ability to negotiate do. In fact, arguably less. "Sure, nobody can trace your Bitcoins...despite them having a full history of transactions, so we just need to tell law enforcement to be on the lookout for ones that were transacted from this address at this time, which details the victims will provide in the hopes of getting their money back and/or extracting revenge."</p>
<p dir="ltr">> And would not it create special opportunity targets of the families of people known to hold bitcoins?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any sufficiently wealthy person or group can purchase Bitcoins with minimal difficulty. The bar appears to be below the threshold where there's enough money to bother with kidnapping. Very few people kidnap the homeless in an attempt to profit.</p>