That's BS news. The lizardmen are going to abuse just about any mixer they can get their hands on in order to launder their money, so why should association with them mean that the mixers should get shutdown?
What about all the exchanges which enable the withdrawals to take place?
And the shadow Paypal accounts and other payment apps?
And the banks turning a blind eye to their deposits?
People should look at the whole picture, else we will soon live in a world where it would not be viewed as draconian to say something like "Linux enables privacy therefore it is only for criminals, because privacy = crime".
The
lizardmen do not need mixers or the cryptospace to launder their money. They have traditional banking and finance to do it for them. The difference is the
lizardmen are the only people who have access to the moneylaundering
function of traditional finance hehehehe. Small minnows like us do not have the income bracket to be included in their group.
However there is good news, the usage of the cryptospace for moneylaundering is open to all individuals. The
lizardmen and the leaders in traditional finance do not like this. The
lizardmen do not want the small minnows to have the same superpowers as them and the leaders of traditional finance do not like competition in their moneylaundering business. For that reason, the
lizardmen are now presently using their people in the government to attack and crackdown on crypto.
The
lizardmen also use their people in mainstream news media to write head shaking articles similar to this.
Axie Infinity
If I told you that US venture capitalists promoted a Ponzi scheme that used a cartoon computer game to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from poor workers in the Philippines and send it to North Korea to fund a ballistic missile program, you probably wouldn’t believe me. Unless I said “… using crypto,” in which case you would probably say “oh yeah that sounds about right.” The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend.
Last year an engineer working for the blockchain gaming company Sky Mavis thought he was on the cusp of a new job that would pay more money.
A recruiter had reached out to him via LinkedIn, and after the two spoke over the phone, the r
ecruiter gave the engineer a document to review as part of the interview process.
But the recruiter was part of a vast North Korean operation aimed at bringing in funds to the cash-poor dictatorship. And the document was a Trojan Horse, malicious computer code that gave the North Koreans access to the engineer’s computer and allowed hackers to break into Sky Mavis. Ultimately they stole more than $600 million—mostly from players of Sky Mavis’s digital pets game, Axie Infinity.
It was the country’s biggest haul in five years of digital heists that have netted more than $3 billion for the North Koreans, according to the blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. That money is being used to fund about 50% of North Korea’s ballistic missile program, U.S. officials say, which has been developed in tandem with its nuclear weapons.
Super! Venture capitalists have largely pivoted from crypto to artificial intelligence, and while the popular view is that AI has a higher probability of wiping out humanity than crypto does, “crypto funds the North Korean missile program” would be a funny way for crypto to kill us all before a rogue AI can.Source https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-12/three-arrows-had-a-fun-bubble
