>>>>>If it annoys you, you can send the "ransom" to me, and I will take care of it for you. 😎
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>>>>I thought all people in Norway are already rich and need no money? What would another US$760 do for you? :)
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>>>It's not the money, it's the pleasure of knowing he has helped someone.
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>>>Plus, perhaps we're already in the post-peek-bitcoin era, the natural sources of it being already depleted. Did you know that all the new bitcoins are actually made of recycled bits?
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>>Funny thing you mentioned the bitcoins. The ransom that the spammer is asking is in the bitcoins. And I would not know how to even start with that. I am so low-tech when it comes to the new currencies.
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>Have a son-in-law who is into cryptocurrencies so I was, pardon (don't execute!) the pun, current with the matter for a while. He's cooled off of it now, doesn't even run his miner - too hot, too noisy - so it's at least put to rest for a while, along with the rest of the issue.
I wish I knew more about it but don't have time to read/learn. My younger daughter invested a few hundred dollars in the cryptocurrencies a while back. Something tells me that she will never get her money back.
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