I would have to disagree. Considering the amount of people who have bitcoin, and even less the amount of people who farm it, or have farmed it before it became so difficult. It seems much more likely that the wide-spread infiltrations of every-day systems is for information and DDoS over bitcoins.

I seriously doubt it’s that hard to sell information to companies, as they most likely don’t care how you got that information.

 

If information wasn’t key, whether it be for selling to another party, or scraping that data for easy to social engineer targets; then I also don’t think that fraudulent calls would be so prevalent these days. Where the main target is older people who will fall for their basic tricks and end up losing potentially thousands per person.