Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she’s not in power any more but she can help jam this up

Gold Buttplug
He’s the man
The man with the Midas arse
Pretty girl, beware of his plug of gold
This butt is cold

lol holy shit

when did we get goldbugs here

bitcoin is more stupid, but goldbugging is not not stupid

yay goldbugs

the other two answers are correct, but also they totally do. In particular, the blockchain analysis companies alert companies using their services to the transaction touching tainted coins. This is variably effective, of course.

But also, there are plenty of non-US/EU exchanges that don’t give a hoot and once tainted coins hit an exchange they’re washed because these exchanges are very good at having pretend KYC/AML.

video version, double episode!!

this video had so many technical hiccups. the front fell off. (literally, my teleprompter tablet’s screen came unglued and fell off. what the.) openshot decided rendering was toooo haaaard and i had to make a copy of the source video with a keyframe every 10 frames. fucking computers.

i’m sure they’re working for someone

my god incredible, what a clever and likable fellow

Michel is great and you should follow him if you enjoy crypto shenanigans

lol i was about to reply “welcome to awful systems here’s your accordion”

how do they think they solved these fundamental issues in their proposed design?

number go up

how dare you, that’s ancap jargon

nor any other

it would be illegal to make her listen to her own music

source announcement https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bitfinex-hacker-sentenced-money-laundering-conspiracy-involving-billions-stolen

razzlekhan being sentenced for war crimes against music on Monday

this is an appropriate penance and now you can change your username

the glib answer is “oh we subscribe to Elliptic” or some other blockchain monitoring service

I am actually talking book proposals about this one. (I told my agent about the Akon City article and her eyes lit up.) There’s a definite strain of compelling crazy to pursue here.

obviously I should write an AI book first. But also, writing isn’t fungible, so it’ll be what I come out with first.

Musk thinks he’s a Mind but he’s Joiler Veppers and will never understand that