One of the primary reasons crypto exchanges are against KYC/AML is because it's makes it harder for the exchange to have plausible deniability regarding trade fraud/market manipulation/wash trading/tape painting.
With more scrutiny on crypto exchanges, these market manipulators/wash traders/tape painters still want to rip people off.
That's why NFT's took off so fast, a new useless item that they can wash trade/tape paint in order to bring in a bunch of new suckers.
And the platforms that sell "art", don't comply with KYC/AML either, I mean why would they have to? It's just "art", right?
Once the NFT grift blows up, they'll launch a new one, you'll see some new bullshit token launch out of nowhere and suddenly be worth billions of dollars.
When in reality it's just three assholes that start it up, and fake the whole thing in another attempt to rip off people buying into their bullshit.
It's like marbles, spinning tops, pogs, tappy cards or clarence dollars in elementary/middle school. Once a fad wears off, the 'cool kids' just start a new fad. The cool kids trade a little bit with each other as the not-so-popular kids watch.
The not-so-popular kids want to be cool and hip, so they excitedly trade for the overvalued new cool things from the cool kids. Once all of the not-so-popular kids got into the scheme, well it's not cool anymore.
Hence the need to create a new scheme.
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He was exposed not by the blockchain but by Twitter and Telegram.
Also he was successful in controlling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ponzi scam tokens.
He will just change his name get a new blockchain address and a new cartoon logo and will get away with it.
Don’t underestimate the ability for crypto Ponzi scammers to use proxies and fronts to run their Ponzi scams. They’ll borrow someone’s identity if they have to.
All crypto lending and yield products are Ponzi scams at the end of the day. The Ponzi scammers behind magic internet money, wonderland, etc, will simply rebrand into new defi Ponzi scams and pretend that they’re totally legitimate.
It’s time for some big brain quotes, from Ludovicus Jan van der Velde. The “CEO”. Of Bitfinex/Tether.
“Financial stability is an absence of instability.” -Ludovicus Jan van der Velde
If a problem cannot be defined, it cannot be solved. - Ludovicus Jan van der Velde
“Where the stablecoin is collateralized predominantly by the asset to which it is pegged, or an asset with a similar risk profile, the management of reserve assets requires little more than the provision of basic banking services.” -Ludovicus Jan van der Velde
When you see some random asshole launch a new meme dog shit token, in reality the exchanges that rush to list it were loading up on the dog shit tokens.
The minute the dog shit token was created, the exchanges were already going to list it to unload it to their sucker customers.
Instead of making fake companies and fake stocks to sell to bagholders, the exchanges just make their own dog shit tokens and peddle them to retail suckers & let the marketing guys take it over.
It's one thing to be suckered into a company that claims to have some new patent.
Instead of investing in a company with a cool patent or about to get FDA/FCC/FAA/EPA/CIA/FBI/IRS/NASA/CFR/KGB approval, now they're literally selling you dog shit tokens.
They also can just fake the market with their own wash trades, like Coinbase was convicted of.