Anybody who claims crypto is useful for buying drugs is a fed. The blockchain contains the transaction history, you can trace a coin back to every wallet it’s ever been in. Buy your drugs with cash, but make sure the cash has been places: cash from an ATM might have no history aside from you withdrawing it.
I’m unsure about the drug trade, but isn’t Monero preferred for ransomware because it’s harder to track than Bitcoin and other crypto? I would assume if it’s good enough for ransomware hostage, it’d be sufficient for illicit purchases.
“Harder to track” is still easier to track than wiring funds overseas to an account made with a stolen identity.
A lot of countries straight up do not respect the FBI and US Government, or have privacy laws preventing cooperation. A popular route would be Switzerland > Trinidad > Russia (but not right now because the Russian monetary system is fucked), it will take forever for law enforcement to get cooperation and then at the end of the line Russia tells them to fuck off.
When Crypto scammers steal from people, they don’t steal Crypto. They have you wire money overseas.
It tells you how useful it is for covert transfers and discretion.
As I have laid out to multiple people: those have never been what it was for and by design never will be. It is a digital multiple ledger system which replaces the need for a bank.
EDIT: and to be clear theres nothing wrong with banks, but they’re inefficient for a lot of things like payment gateways and can be unreliable.
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That line gets me every time.
Anybody who claims crypto is useful for buying drugs is a fed. The blockchain contains the transaction history, you can trace a coin back to every wallet it’s ever been in. Buy your drugs with cash, but make sure the cash has been places: cash from an ATM might have no history aside from you withdrawing it.
I’m unsure about the drug trade, but isn’t Monero preferred for ransomware because it’s harder to track than Bitcoin and other crypto? I would assume if it’s good enough for ransomware hostage, it’d be sufficient for illicit purchases.
“Harder to track” is still easier to track than wiring funds overseas to an account made with a stolen identity.
A lot of countries straight up do not respect the FBI and US Government, or have privacy laws preventing cooperation. A popular route would be Switzerland > Trinidad > Russia (but not right now because the Russian monetary system is fucked), it will take forever for law enforcement to get cooperation and then at the end of the line Russia tells them to fuck off.
When Crypto scammers steal from people, they don’t steal Crypto. They have you wire money overseas.
That right there tells you everything you need to know about how useful crypto is as a currency
It tells you how useful it is for covert transfers and discretion.
As I have laid out to multiple people: those have never been what it was for and by design never will be. It is a digital multiple ledger system which replaces the need for a bank.
EDIT: and to be clear theres nothing wrong with banks, but they’re inefficient for a lot of things like payment gateways and can be unreliable.
Yes, by all means, just add wire fraud and identity theft to your portfolio when buying some weed
The user above me said kidnapping. Also it might sound complicated but you could probably set it up in an afternoon.
You can track monero? Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?
No, I don’t I’ve never even heard of that shit but if its crypto then its a multiple digital ledger by definition. They all are.
Fucking brilliant every time
Nice to see this one here. Was going to post myself if no one had already.
The only part of this that aged poorly is the Penn Gillette bit. He’s come around.
Somehow I read that story in my mind in the voice of Matthew McConoghey…
So when I read the alright alright part it definitely had three Alrights.
Great story, got me hooked.
Edit: ah shit, i just read down below that it’s a well known cooypasta. Got me good
You should consider a career as a cyberpunk satirist.It’s a well known copypasta
Huh. TIL. I’ve never seen it before.
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Immediately thought of this when I saw the screenshot.
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