@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months agoTrump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplacewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up1471
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•3 months agoHere’s my convoluted conspiracy theory for how this makes sense. Trump launches Trump Coin Trump pardons crypto drug dealer, but not paper drug dealers Crypto market booms Trump sells coin to whichever idiots he hasn’t scammed yet
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoThat cryptoscan was to allow untraceable bribes from enemy nations.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYou can already do that with any cryptocurrency using a mixer. And some of them already have strong privacy built in or available as add-ons.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoI also think this is some crypto bro shenanigans. Ulbricht might even have billions in Bitcoin stashed away somewhere for a juicy payback.
Here’s my convoluted conspiracy theory for how this makes sense.
Trump launches Trump Coin
Trump pardons crypto drug dealer, but not paper drug dealers
Crypto market booms
Trump sells coin to whichever idiots he hasn’t scammed yet
That cryptoscan was to allow untraceable bribes from enemy nations.
You can already do that with any cryptocurrency using a mixer. And some of them already have strong privacy built in or available as add-ons.
I also think this is some crypto bro shenanigans. Ulbricht might even have billions in Bitcoin stashed away somewhere for a juicy payback.