Comment Comment by tphyahoo2 Without bitcoin, you collect the ransom in gold with a dead drop.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop"But the police can watch the dead drop."True."No police or the victim dies."Also true.Bitcoin does make kidnapping a bit easier though. It is true.It also makes hyperinflation by the state impossible. Hyperinflation does a lot more damage than kidnapping. parent tphyahoo2 3 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop
"But the police can watch the dead drop."
True.
"No police or the victim dies."
Also true.
Bitcoin does make kidnapping a bit easier though. It is true.
It also makes hyperinflation by the state impossible. Hyperinflation does a lot more damage than kidnapping.