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There definitely have been a case where the police, observing things with thermal cameras from a helicopter (for it is in the US where this tale happened), observed some house with a highly suspicious heat signature. …Some dude’s crypto mining operation.

Well, that was definitely indirectly drug related.

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untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
ik there’s a lot of drug money in crypto but the majority of it isn’t that. Bitcoin didn’t get a 2.5 trillion market cap though selling weed, a ton of that is from institutions like banks and corporation buying it up

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- Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In a way it sorta did. Not directly obviously but if you look at the history of bitcoin, its first truly viable use was darknet markets. After getting established as the currency there, it proved it could work and banks n all started buying it, so it was the weed that did it in a way
  
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  - BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    First ever bitcoin purchase was literally pizza lol
    
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    Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I didn’t say anything abt the first purchase so unsure how this is relevant
    
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ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
In theory it’s supposed to be unconstitutional to use FLIR on a house without a warrant to find evidence. In practice though, I’m sure they can easily ruin someone’s life for a while based off of “heat signatures”. This isn’t even mentioning what they could get away with if the Feds are involved. Who even knows anymore?

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- SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Can’t use it to find evidence or get a warrant, but absolutely do use it to figure out who to target/where to look for evidence.
  
  Herring Vs. United States set the de facto legal basis that allows for this sort of evidence laundering.
  
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