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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

check out this jumpscare suckerpunch mashup

some of the details are so on point I’m almost left pointing and mouthing “art”

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First-ever criminal charges against financial services firms for market manipulation and “wash trading” in the cryptocurrency industry

Cryptocurrency is a 15-year old industry built mostly on market manipulation and wash trading and now we're seeing the first charges for it? Man, back in the day they told me doing crime was illegal.

Deflationary

With every transaction supply shrinks by burning a percentage of reflections to the burn wallet

Turns out libertarians actually love taxes, but only if instead of spending the tax money on anything, it's burned to waste.

Further proof that at least some of these people don't have a problem with losing money, they have a problem with other people receiving it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fraudster: "the “objective on the secondary markets” is to find “other buyers from the community, people you don’t know about or don’t care about” because “we have to make [the other buyers] lose money in order to make profit.”"

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this supposed to be a parody or something? If so, why is this being done at the direction of the FBI? Or is that also part of the parody? If so I didn't know you could use the FBI logo for that purpose.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

linked post details it, but tldr sting setup