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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 24, 2016 10:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bitcoin used for nefarious purposes: was RE: quote for the day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br>On Mar 24, 2016 8:09 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>>>… It is really giving me heartburn: if the good guys can think of these kinds of capers, the bad guys are thinking of ten times as many and ten times worse….<o:p></o:p></p><p>>…In other words: the good guys can, on average, think of worse than the bad guys for the same reason that they are the good guys.<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sure OK, um… cool. Sorta. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Simple question sir: did the hospital hackers get away with money? If so, they just demonstrated a really good reason to get the hell out of bitcoin immediately; if you own it, sell it while you still can, all of it. If the bad guys got away with this, they just demonstrated a means to collect a ransom payment, and that leads di-freaking-rectly to all manner of bad things happening and all governments everywhere outlawing all crypto currency. This is a bad thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>It pains me to admit this, but here goes: if the hospital hackers got away with anything, the bitcoin critics were right all along.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Talk me down Adrian and Kelly. I don’t own bitcoin, but if I did I would be bailing out of it forthwith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>