{"id":33171,"date":"2020-02-01T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=33171"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:55:24","slug":"bitcoin-and-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/bitcoin-and-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin and crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just came across this old screenshot from from the FT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Stamos made a similar point on the Risky Biz <\/a>podcast recently. I am paraphrasing but he was stating the obvious point that a substantial amount of Bitcoin’s value is based on ransomware and other cycbercrime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Grey also made a good point in the Zane Lacky episode that the explosion in infosec interest really started with Lulzsec<\/a>. I tend to agree. At least, it was what pushed me from general security interest into making it a career interest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just came across this old screenshot from from the FT. Alex Stamos made a similar point on the Risky Biz podcast recently. I am paraphrasing but he was stating the obvious point that a substantial amount of Bitcoin’s value is based on ransomware and other cycbercrime. Patrick Grey also made a good point in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-33171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-8D1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32812,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-shirky-principle-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":33171,"position":0},"title":"The Shirky Principle","author":"Limbic","date":"August 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0\"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution\" - Clay Shirky This is also known as Regulatory Capture\" \u201cWhen a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contemporary Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Contemporary Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/humanities\/contemporary-culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8107,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/what-is-resilience\/","url_meta":{"origin":33171,"position":1},"title":"What is resilience?","author":"Limbic","date":"September 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting look at What is resilience from Andy Summer. 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