WannaCry Ransomware Exposed as a False Flag to Attack Bitcoin

in #bitcoin8 years ago

In this video, software and blockchain developer Vin Armani examines the WannaCry ransomware that the corporate media acted like it was the end of the world. Ultimately it appears to be an amateurish false flag attack on bitcoin. But upon digging into the bitcoin addresses used in the attack, Vin discovers a more potentially much more nefarious attack on bitcoin.

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I brought this up in a conversation shortly after it began making it's rounds. Good to see it being discussed and analyzed by other parties.

Vin discovers that payments attached to the ransomware bitcoin wallets appear to be bots designed to spam the Bitcoin network. So not only is Bitcoin under attack in the MSM press by this so-called attack, but it's also under attack using the spamming technique shown in this video.