<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>On Mar 24, 2016, at 3:45 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Adrian, I think the world of you my brother, and I hope you are right. But there isn’t a word in your reply (or Anders’ comments for that matter) that convinces me the bitcoin critics were wrong. If they got away with it, that hospital caper has demonstrated a way for the bad guys to do their nefarious deeds and get paid. If so, this leads directly to governments everywhere just saying no to cryptocurrency for a legitimate reason: it enables the kinds of crime we don’t want. </span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If I owned any bitcoin I would be bailing out headfirst forthwith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike</span></p></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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--></style><div>The trouble is that perps spreading ransomware don't care if you have a Bitcoin wallet. They know you will create one to free your pc if needed. </div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">it enables the kinds of crime we don’t want. </span></font><div><br></div>What kind of crime do we want, btw?</div><div><br></div><div>Your position implies are you anti-encryption as well now. It can facilitate concealment of crimes in addition to dick pics, you know. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/john-oliver-why-the-apple-fbi-fight-extends-way-past-dick-pics-20160314">http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/john-oliver-why-the-apple-fbi-fight-extends-way-past-dick-pics-20160314</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Henry </div></body></html>