This attack was a false flag used to criminalize Bitcoin. The ransomware was created by the NSA in the first place.
Remember that all governments work for the central banks and the central banks know that a lot of people on this planet realize that we are being held hostage by the central banks.
Bitcoin is something that is a direct threat to the central banks survival and they will stop at nothing to try and destroy it.
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