Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia
> However, in a later conversation, he warned that they could be used for money laundering and ransomware payments.<p>Maybe I just don't get it but I found this article unintentionally hilarious.<p>First, the idea of running a distributed ledger to keep track of burger points.  This is the tech equivalent of using a bazooka to address an ant problem.<p>Second, the idea of money laundering and ransom ware...imagining Colombian drug lords cleaning narco dollars into Russian burger points, and my hard drive ending up infected...you can have your files back in exchange for 100 Whoppers in St. Petersburg.<p>is this what a block chain bubble looks like?