Crime and cryptocurrencies

The kidnapping modality to ask for bitcoins has taken relevance in the last days in Venezuela, especially in the state of Zulia in the west of the country, where three traders have been kidnapped and what is asked to the family are bitcoins, the highest amount asked to free the person was 10 BTC. This is the result of the unquestionable growth of the currency and the popular use that this nation is making of them, for all types of transactions, even criminal ones, as in this case. Fortunately, this case was resolved with nothing to regret, but this has not happened in other cases.

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In the case of Venezuela, due to the distortions that occur with the country's currency, the bolivar, an attractive market has been created for cryptoassets such as Bitcoin, firm cryptocurrencies such as USDT (Tether), USDC, and DAI, as well as SLP tokens and those that come from NFT platform games and whose values and prices are competitive. This means that Venezuelans have found that by these means they can keep the value of their work safe, save, have international payments, remittances and carry out operations that allow them to make profits. These operations do not escape from criminals, whose economic situation adapts to that of the nation where they exercise criminal acts, which is why the modality of ordering bitcoin concerns the entire conglomerate that is in that country.

It has also been observed that with the advent of earnings through video games young people are also affected by some advantaged who want to take advantage of it, it is for this reason that privacy measures should be increased, that among young people should not be spread with allusions that is or is found earning a lot of bitcoins or something like that, that it should be taken into account that parents should monitor the privacy and the little notoriety of what their children generate in cryptocurrencies, Similarly adults, sometimes make boasts of what they generate in dollars, in a country where the low financial profile should be the cover letter to m maintain security. Criminals now use hackers, digital platforms and all kinds of technology, they also adapt and adapt their methods, hence the extreme care and extreme privacy.