So your options are e.g. suborning a listed company and wearing it like a skin suit, then having marks purchase shares of that company.
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This is dreadfully inconvenient, because marks might not have brokerage accounts, and scaling the scam gets it shut down quickly.
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Enter the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which needs one node with plausible deniability and a bank uplink. Controls of other nodes irrelevant.
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The cryptocurrency ecosystem has what strikes participants as a surprising difficulty in maintaining one node with a foot in real finance.
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This is not surprising because that node's economic justification for existing looks a whole lot like money laundering at scale.
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Now for whatever reason this shell game is really successful, and after value is in cryptocurrency ecosystem, it flows from scam to scam.
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Exfiltration! How do you justify to the grownup financial system where your $20 million came from? You can't say "Defrauding Milly."
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So instead you say "Speculation.", which is just enough for the see-no-evil gatekeepers.
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Now how do you avoid going to jail for it? The plan appears to be "Exploit regulatory ambiguity and move as fast as possible."
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With varying level of "Make some sort of plausible excuse that there does exist an actual enterprise and it is not just scams all way down."
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Economic substance is not a novel innovation for scams. Sometimes e.g. the boiler rooms did pump stocks for companies which had products.
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Small company which makes pool cleaners: a possibly high risk investment. Same company implying 1000X returns: scam scam scammity scam.
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Here again we see the fundamental innovation of cryptocurrency, where the central actors can mostly truthfully claim to have never said it.
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