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Reasons:

  1. Trump Tower Sinaloa

  2. Free cocaine for Jr

  3. Reclassified as Afrikaners

  4. Massive Trumpcoin investment

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My money is on number 4. The Guzmans must have bought a lot of Trumpcoins. The sad part for the (innocent) family members is that in a year or two, when Trump has gotten all he wants from the Cartel, he'll have them deported back to Mexico anyway.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How would they buy it? I dont think there's a platform to buy shitcoins with a mattress full of cash

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can walk into my local gas station and put cash into a digital Bitcoin wallet. Buying Trump coin with Bitcoin I assume you can do on many platforms.

Double checked. You can by Trump coin directly from Crypto.com's platform. When you are ready to make a purchase in person say groceries, you can pull the money from any of their coins directly for use on a Visa Debit card. Physical if you want one, or from Google/Apple/Samsung pay.

If I can figure out a mattress to purchase method in under a minute I imagine the cartels have figured out methods

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lol wut. Bitcoin is more transparent than cash. The entire blockchain is publicly visible by everyone. You can't launder money with bitcoin.

Cartels launder money with greenbacks. I still dont see how they can buy this shitcoin with dirty cash.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Okay so show me who bought Trump coin in the last 24 hours. Names included. Or.... Is it not as easy as you say?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There's whole companies that do this, yes. Their business is coin analytics. For a small fee, this info is easy to obtain. They are contracted by the government.

Is this really news to you?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not news to me, it's overstated bologna thats it's common place. You not being able to show it shows so. Not trying to be confrontational just trying to say.... It isn't info that is easily accessible like people bluntly say

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 18 hours ago

Just pull up the blockchain explorer. Its all public.

KYC data links it, as mandated by AML laws. I dont see what's confusing about this to you.