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Comment by andromaton | Hacker News Reader

Please explain.

There have plenty of people loosing a lot of money in crypto due to them believing 'get rich fast', etc.

The people who got rich of crypto are not rich because value was created out of thin air but because enough VC or cryptobros pushed tons of ads in their faces to get more money from normal people.

If someone now randomly donates 100k in crypto it was probably money from normal other people.

Or and that's a second option: it's money laundry.

You are as ignorant on what money laundering is as people that think coding/hacking in movies is actually just scrolling terminal text going at 1000 words per minute.

I like to call these "coin-operated comments". Someone sees an input phrase "cryptocurrency", a neuron fires, and they respond with an output phrase "money laundering". The pattern recognition is good enough to be able to emit a relevant predetermined opinion from ROM, but there's no higher-level ability to adapt to the flow of conversation or absorb any new information.

> Or and that's a second option: it's money laundry.

That part is bullshit unless you accuse the author of being a part of it. Money laundering is about getting part of your dirty money in some form of clean income. Here it would only work if the person receiving the money would be in on the scheme and spend it accordingly. That would be a crime, btw.

For a different respective: some donors might be thieves or worse. Many and probably most aren't. I would gladly accept an anonymous donation. What to do if i learn it's ill gotten is a different discussion. I don't understand your money laundry hypothesis.

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