• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Somehow it got turned into little graphics exchanged for money

    Step 1: Say blockchain to an investor

    Step 2: Tell them you will use it to sell a new thing.

    Step 3: Tell them that no one has ever done it before, and it’ll be the next hot thing.

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      4 hours ago

      What if we took the art market, where prices can be whatever, so it’s really easy to launder money. Then we let people easily set up multiple accounts for wash trading. And we supported currencies held in stupidly large amounts by people who can’t legally use them for anything useful.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s all fun and games until they’re prosecuting you under the RICO act ;)