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So, long story short, this is a thread about cryptocurrency.
On the surface this may seem a little conspiracy-theory shaped, but when you understand it, it will make a lot of sense.
This is not in fact "conspiracy" as much as a map to how "modern" tech crime functions.
It starts with bitcoins.
Bitcoins are bought by people who intend to buy drugs or "be suckers". More on the suckers later.
These bitcoins are acquired from public exchanges because no illegal transactions will be made with them. Instead, they are commonly transacted by buyers to some other coin, such as Monero, in an "atomic swap".
Then, the drug buyer uses a darknet market to buy drugs.
Then there are the suckers.
These people spend their bitcoins to buy NFTs and junk coins, to "play the market".
But this doesn't really speak much about the other side.
There's another side.
There's the side of the seller.
So, what is the seller to do with this Monero/XMR? How will they justify, on a public ledger of Bitcoins, why they suddenly have BTC when they sell it?
Instead of claiming they got it from selling XMR, the Bitcoin is used to buy junk cryptoassets from themselves which they either made themselves or bought because they were cheap. They lose a transaction fee, and suddenly their windfall looks legitimate. Not only this, but a price has been established for the asset.
Now they just have to wait for someone to see this apparent worth of the asset "flying off the shelf", and then they can double their money because this is where the sucker returns to the equation...
Don't be a sucker. Don't speculate on crypto.
On the surface this may seem a little conspiracy-theory shaped, but when you understand it, it will make a lot of sense.
This is not in fact "conspiracy" as much as a map to how "modern" tech crime functions.
It starts with bitcoins.
Bitcoins are bought by people who intend to buy drugs or "be suckers". More on the suckers later.
These bitcoins are acquired from public exchanges because no illegal transactions will be made with them. Instead, they are commonly transacted by buyers to some other coin, such as Monero, in an "atomic swap".
Then, the drug buyer uses a darknet market to buy drugs.
Then there are the suckers.
These people spend their bitcoins to buy NFTs and junk coins, to "play the market".
But this doesn't really speak much about the other side.
There's another side.
There's the side of the seller.
So, what is the seller to do with this Monero/XMR? How will they justify, on a public ledger of Bitcoins, why they suddenly have BTC when they sell it?
Instead of claiming they got it from selling XMR, the Bitcoin is used to buy junk cryptoassets from themselves which they either made themselves or bought because they were cheap. They lose a transaction fee, and suddenly their windfall looks legitimate. Not only this, but a price has been established for the asset.
Now they just have to wait for someone to see this apparent worth of the asset "flying off the shelf", and then they can double their money because this is where the sucker returns to the equation...
Don't be a sucker. Don't speculate on crypto.