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It pains me to say this, but most of the time the hackers will ask for payment in bitcoin which makes tracking much harder.


You mean the bitcoin that maintains a public record of every transaction ever made on the network? There are still ways to anonomously cash out (payments to an anonomous account that forwards the funds to a mixing service, for example), but bitcoin is not a silver bullet for getting away with it.




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