You really think that Bruce Schneier, renowned digital security expert, needs to be paid to write a denouncement of cryptocurrency—the enabler of a host of recent ransomware and similar attacks?
For some reason he totally missed the whole cryptocurrency thing, which a lot of cryptographers did in the early days. The problem is that he still is regurgitating the same FUD from 8+ years now.
These days I look to up to folks like Dan Boneh. That guy is amazing.