To Save Ukraine, Freeze Crypto Too

Cryptocurrency could be a last resort of the Russian mafia state

Paul Greenberg
OneZero
Published in
4 min readMar 1, 2022

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“Ukraine Grunge Flag” by Nicolas Raymond on Flickr (CC BY 3.0)

Cryptocurrency seems cool, but let’s face it, crypto’s main purpose is to hide stuff. Sure, the blockchain-powered darling of speculators — and now even Larry David — allows for a certain degree of “freedom,” ensuring that transactions are untraceable by governments and other sorts of regulators…

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Paul Greenberg
OneZero

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org