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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by jacquesm on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:52AM (#35551965)
That's not what was meant with 'crime adjacent'.
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Re:The U.S. Cracked a $3.4B Crypto Heist–and Bitcoin’s Anony... by vertis on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:56AM (#35553208)
Heh, it's a literal meaning of crime adjacent (presuming that the person in the actual target apartment was actually guilty).

I suspect anyone that was an early adopter of crypto is somewhat considered crime adjacent because so much of the early usage was silk road.

For a while after MtGox was hacked I used BTC-e (yes, I lost money in MtGox). It was later discovered(alleged?) that the operators of BTC-e were involved in laundering money for the MtGox hack[0]. I guess my very presence in that case would be considered crime adjacent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e

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