The Monero pump finally explained! ... maybe (monero.town)

submitted 4 months ago by antidote@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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According to the latest rumor, some Asian darknet overlords are responsible.

They have billions in non-fungible digital money, and they are moving it into Monero because the Alphabet boys came down on them.

Haowang Guarantee was larger than the Silk Road, larger than Hydra, just the "largest illicit online marketplace to have ever operated", with $27 Billion of transactions since launching in 2021.

Source: Trade brains

Source: @MoneroMavrick

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[-] Charlxmagne@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago

$300M USD's worth of BTC was reportedly recently social engineered and stolen from an elderly person and successfully laundered using XMR which caused the initial 50% increase in price.