One market’s shutdown comes after the Treasury Department sought a related ban.
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    17 hours ago

    Funny how they operated on open-ish, centralized, highly accessible social media, yet Telegram has basically zero liability for hosting it, and seemingly little motivation to seek out such things.

    It’s almost like trusting commercial social media to be decent arbiters, in exchange for their legal protection, isn’t working out so well…

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      53 minutes ago

      Telegram has basically zero liability for hosting it

      Not sure if you heard the news but the founder was put in jail for it for a while. He’s now complying with gov requests to remove chat groups.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    142·
    17 hours ago

    Whole place glows like it’s bioluminescent at this point.

    A shame really.

    I really liked being able to buy Monero with PayPal on LocalMarket and sellers always used TG, bit of a scam exchange rate wise but well worth it for small domestic DNM orders without fucking with KYC data harvesting ops like exchanges etc. and then have to mess with atomic swaps and whatnot just because the gov’t fascists-in-chief used my taxes to ban BTC ATMs from back in the day.

    I imagine the sellers used this to launder money they made as vendors on DNMs or some such enterprise.