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by jrflowers 1069 days ago
Your anecdote about your exchanging the USDT that you held for cash in your city is has virtually zero bearing in the average consumer. Not everyone has the access to piles of non-KYC no-questions-asked cash and asserting otherwise is an embarrassing pivot to distract from your strange brag about your net worth.

Also your story begins with you holding USDT. I am assuming that you were able to amass your entire crypto fortune without ever involving a bank account or debit card, because otherwise your answer to my question would likely be “Visa or Mastercard” when it comes to how you came to possess any crypto assets in the first place.
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brutusborn 1069 days ago
I understand your confusion, but the tone of your replies is crappy. If you didn’t like an answer, ask another question to continue the discussion.

Acting like a petulant child doesn’t do anyone any good.

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jrflowers 1069 days ago
You bragged about money laundering in a thread about ebooks buddy. “I have access to a Hawala” is not constructive to the conversation in the slightest.
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brutusborn 1068 days ago
You're confusing me with someone else. Do you see the irony in complaining about unconstructive comments with a reply that is so obviously wrong and unrelated to the parent? Awful tone and childish argumentation to boot.
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jrflowers 1068 days ago
My mistake, it is the case that you are the one that defended the learning value of the person bragging about money laundering in the ebook thread.

Out of curiosity, what did you learn?

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brutusborn 1068 days ago
You're almost there: the parent didn't describe money laundering, they described a legal conversion. It's your prerogative to reflexively interpret privacy concerns as criminality, but it isn't useful for a constructive discussion.

I learnt that Cryto ATM withdrawal limits have grown significantly in the last few years.

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jrflowers 1068 days ago
It’s a bit of a shame that you’re primarily interested in my posting style, not payment processing, crypto or the publishing industry.

As a fun observation, when you see someone discussing something inane like buying ebooks, it’s actually pretty odd for a stranger to hop in and volunteer details about how much money they have and to brag about how they knowingly pay a premium to avoid KYC when handling cash.

For example, if a stranger walked up to you on the street and interrupted your conversation with “I totally know a guy that’ll take any amount of cash you’ve got and give you untraceable crypto or vice versa, no questions asked” without volunteering any other information, you’d be better off being suspicious of him rather than the person being skeptical of that guy.

If you think GP is talking about “Bitcoin ATMs”, can you point me to one that will dispense $10,000 cash from USDT, not Bitcoin without any KYC?

But please go on with your critique.

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