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check out this jumpscare suckerpunch mashup
some of the details are so on point I’m almost left pointing and mouthing “art”
Cryptocurrency is a 15-year old industry built mostly on market manipulation and wash trading and now we're seeing the first charges for it? Man, back in the day they told me doing crime was illegal.
Turns out libertarians actually love taxes, but only if instead of spending the tax money on anything, it's burned to waste.
Further proof that at least some of these people don't have a problem with losing money, they have a problem with other people receiving it.
Fraudster: "the “objective on the secondary markets” is to find “other buyers from the community, people you don’t know about or don’t care about” because “we have to make [the other buyers] lose money in order to make profit.”"
Is this supposed to be a parody or something? If so, why is this being done at the direction of the FBI? Or is that also part of the parody? If so I didn't know you could use the FBI logo for that purpose.
linked post details it, but tldr sting setup