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Re:Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ether... by csomar on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:48AM (#28681270)
You are dramatizing. Bitfinex is a bit shady but not Cocaine-dealers kind of criminal. Add that to the fact that many miners are anonymous or are actually pools run by actual companies. Best they can hope for is a legal proceeding.
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Re:Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ether... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#28683031)
> Bitfinex is a bit shady but not Cocaine-dealers kind of criminal

Not far off [1]. Serial counterfeiting, fraudulent tax losses, shipping "a large block of wood" in a box supposed to contain memory chips.

Granted, no proven track record of violence. But most people in the illicit drug trade have no such record. And this one doesn't show evidence of good judgment.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4da3060c-8e1a-439f-a1d7-a6a4688ad...

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