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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol Monero

  Potentially helpful extra context that makes me extra suspicious when somebody evangelizes it all the time

  Monero users can and have been deanonymized by the police. Monero also acts as a de-facto tumbler, meaning by using it, you’re money laundering for criminals as a matter of course.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The police want you to think they have managed to trace Monero, but what they have actually done is used other methods such as tracing the Bitcoin that people swapped for Monero and then back into Bitcoin almost immediately, or other such methods.

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  • CedarA64@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cash benefits money launderers as well. What kind of argument is this even? I guess the government should just be able to track all your transactions all the time? Reminder that the government that is in power at the time in a given country decides what is and isn’t “illegal”.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We all have different priorities, I guess. You might be okay with aiding American money launderers, but draw the line at anything that might have touched Israel.

      (PS: It didn’t. Matrixis several degrees of separation from anything Israeli, let alone any government, so you might want to edit that comment.)

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      • CedarA64@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How does Monero particularly help American money launderers as opposed to money launderers in general? Also, very strange to go look through someone’s comment history so you can use that to make some unrelated remark…

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