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Telegram bans $35B black markets used to sell stolen data, launder crypto (arstechnica.com)
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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Whole place glows like it's bioluminescent at this point.

A shame really.

I really liked being able to buy Monero with PayPal on LocalMarket and sellers always used TG, bit of a scam exchange rate wise but well worth it for small domestic DNM orders without fucking with KYC data harvesting ops like exchanges etc. and then have to mess with atomic swaps and whatnot just because the gov't fascists-in-chief used my taxes to ban BTC ATMs from back in the day.

I imagine the sellers used this to launder money they made as vendors on DNMs or some such enterprise.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Go Bisq or RetoSwap, there are Simplex channels too

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know some of these words

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

monero (xmr) is an untraceable cryptocurency

TG is a bank

KYC means know your costumer

atomic swaps are a way of buying some crypto for other crypto

DNMs I think are darknet markets

[–] fcuks@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

interested in how were you using paypal without kyc?

[–] FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wanna know too

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whole plays glows

You mean “[the] whole place glows?”

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah sorry already edited the comment. Feels like my grammar has gone to shit lately.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 1 day ago

It’s fine, I’ve just seen a lot of weird comments today so I was starting to wonder if they’re generated comments somehow.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

could we get a how-to from you about buying Monero and atomic swaps and all that?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Step one seems to be "find a new market" now that you cant use this one anymore.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

why not? any alternative to mining at home?