Let me quick hijack the topic. Why are there so many money-laundering schemes? Couldn’t the guys just call themselves lucky and find a suitcase full of money every month?
Plus, you could maybe get away with it once. The problem is when they try to do it again. How many bags of money are they finding on the ground? How many highly insured spouses are falling down the stairs?
Great show, had me rooting for him till they revealed it happened to him before. He’s either the unluckiest bastard around, or dumb enough to try the same thing twice.
The problem is the stranglehold of control governments have over the financial system. The goal is to track all of the transactions in the system to validate they are legal (no buying drugs, slaves, hiring assassins, dual-use goods, or giving money to people the state has deemed “terrorists”). This control apparatus is vast and a mix of legal and quasi-legal (your Visas and Mastercards of the world have their own bullshit) rules on what is allowed to be transacted or not. So if you’re trying to fund your rebel group, buying chips to put in missiles, or selling illicit substances, you need to get creative to get around all the checking that goes on.
This is why bitcoin exists. It was an attempt to side step all of this, but ultimately has been captured at the exchange points.
Let me quick hijack the topic. Why are there so many money-laundering schemes? Couldn’t the guys just call themselves lucky and find a suitcase full of money every month?
In the same way a person could claim they were unlucky if their highly insured spouses kept dying.
Nobody wants that suspicion on them.
Plus, you could maybe get away with it once. The problem is when they try to do it again. How many bags of money are they finding on the ground? How many highly insured spouses are falling down the stairs?
For that one guy, apparently two lol
Great show, had me rooting for him till they revealed it happened to him before. He’s either the unluckiest bastard around, or dumb enough to try the same thing twice.
My favorite part (of the documentary, not the show) was the owl theory lol
The problem is the stranglehold of control governments have over the financial system. The goal is to track all of the transactions in the system to validate they are legal (no buying drugs, slaves, hiring assassins, dual-use goods, or giving money to people the state has deemed “terrorists”). This control apparatus is vast and a mix of legal and quasi-legal (your Visas and Mastercards of the world have their own bullshit) rules on what is allowed to be transacted or not. So if you’re trying to fund your rebel group, buying chips to put in missiles, or selling illicit substances, you need to get creative to get around all the checking that goes on.
This is why bitcoin exists. It was an attempt to side step all of this, but ultimately has been captured at the exchange points.