Column: Stop clapping for Tinker Bell! Ban cryptocurrency and rein in ransomware attacks.

For all of the utopian guarantees of a close to frictionless, privacy-enhancing forex liberated from centralized, nationwide monetary programs, the options of cryptocurrency have turned out to be bugs. It’s develop into the coin of selection for cash launderers, tax cheats, black marketeers, terrorism funders and, after all, extortionists.