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I’ve been told you can use Monero to buy drugs.

• latchkey 3y ago
  I've been told I can use USD to buy drugs too. In fact, USD is the number one currency on the planet for nefarious purposes, by an absurd amount. Monero has a 24h buy/sell volume of only $110m. What do you think the global volume is for drug/nefarious trade? Using crypto for "bad things" is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. Given that Mastercard just stopped allowing debit card usage at Cannabis stores (which makes sense, it is a source of fraud with cashbacks), it seems like there should be a way that people can buy things without having to take on risk by carrying cash into a store.
  • philwelch 3y ago
    > Using crypto for "bad things" is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. I never said drugs were "bad things". Some of them are, but some of them aren't. I was genuinely pointing out that getting access to certain unfairly prohibited drugs was a positive benefit that some people get from cryptocurrency. > Given that Mastercard just stopped allowing debit card usage at Cannabis stores (which makes sense, it is a source of fraud with cashbacks), it seems like there should be a way that people can buy things without having to take on risk by carrying cash into a store. See, there's another illegal drug you might be able to buy with cryptocurrency! My point exactly.
    • latchkey 3y ago
      illegal?
      • philwelch 3y ago
        Cannabis is illegal under US federal law.
        • latchkey 3y ago
          Yes, don't take it into the white house.
          • philwelch 3y ago
            Buying or selling cannabis anywhere in the United States is a federal crime. I’m not sure what the White House has to do with this, unless you’re making a topical joke but that was cocaine.
            • latchkey 3y ago
              Yea, it was a double ended joke. Mostly about the fact that it is a federal building, hence not legal, and partly about cokegate.
              • philwelch 3y ago
                Gotcha :)