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Highly visible shit like this, will be used by governments to regulate and/or outlaw crypto, and stops normal people from touching crypto

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I would not be surprised if the recent -10% move is connected with Wannacry.

Nah. The price was (still is) overbought. It's normal to see the price drop if you take into consideration that people are cashing out, plus the fact that there is a poor level of buy support throughout the entire market at these levels. I personally don't give a single damn about the wave of ransomware infections, and others shouldn't too if they take care of their system security properly.

yea, but this ransomware spread is hitting government PC instance.
sure we, who aware such PC security won't take this issue serious, but imagine of a govn. instance with all public data got this on their server.

The fault was in the people who made and leaked this virus, because it obviously isn't home-made, Bitcoin is just a tool they are using to help their scheme not the cause.

There's a high chance that the ransomware was set to activate at a specific time and it was just infecting places along the way, and the NHS and whatever just happened to get caught up in it. Considering they're asking for just $300 it doesn't seem like a targeted attack and there were likely more factors at play.

Actually $300 worth of BTC is the 'bargain' price and it keeps rising as time drags on until it reaches $600 worth of BTC. If they still don't pay the virus deletes the encrypted files permanently. At least according to this article: https://apnews.com/770946e7df454d2e9acda3bdbd3ed425/Unprecedented-global-'ransomware'-attack-seeks-cash-for-data

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The attack held hospitals and other entities hostage by freezing computers, encrypting data and demanding money through online bitcoin payments. But it appears to be low-level stuff, Eisen said Saturday, given the amount of ransom demanded $300 at first, rising to $600 before it destroys files hours later.