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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by Delotono on Sunday June 18, 2023 @11:58AM (#36381414)
There have plenty of people loosing a lot of money in crypto due to them believing 'get rich fast', etc.

The people who got rich of crypto are not rich because value was created out of thin air but because enough VC or cryptobros pushed tons of ads in their faces to get more money from normal people.

If someone now randomly donates 100k in crypto it was probably money from normal other people.

Or and that's a second option: it's money laundry.

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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by andromaton on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:40PM (#36381822)
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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by choeger on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:14PM (#36381551)
> Or and that's a second option: it's money laundry.

That part is bullshit unless you accuse the author of being a part of it. Money laundering is about getting part of your dirty money in some form of clean income. Here it would only work if the person receiving the money would be in on the scheme and spend it accordingly. That would be a crime, btw.

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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by goosinmouse on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:13PM (#36381542)
You are as ignorant on what money laundering is as people that think coding/hacking in movies is actually just scrolling terminal text going at 1000 words per minute.
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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by EscapeFromNY on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:32PM (#36381749)
I like to call these "coin-operated comments". Someone sees an input phrase "cryptocurrency", a neuron fires, and they respond with an output phrase "money laundering". The pattern recognition is good enough to be able to emit a relevant opinion from ROM, but there's no higher-level ability to adapt to the flow of conversation or absorb any new information.
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Re:In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k spo... by Delotono on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:25PM (#36384663)
Why do you think I don't know what money laundry is?

I'm fully aware aware and made the point on purpose. I did not any indication to the probability but hey you jumped the gun with some random hacker movie comparison not me

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