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Starting to think people are treating these more like Pokemon cards rather than a computer. Gotta scalp 'em all.
A person raised their price on their Facebook marketplace listing because they saw the price went up.
Yeah... Its Pokémon cards.
I am 100% sure they are being used to launder crypto.
You can set up a crypto card as your payment on steam, buy Steam Decks and then sell them easily for your preferred fiat currency.
This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever read on here.
People are really obsessed that something nefarious is going on with steam hardware purchases, but I’ve never seen any evidence. Just wild speculation
Haha, sounds like you might be overestimating your own intelligence (classic Lemmy syndrome, don't worry about it)
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The irony
Why not just buy drugs?
The point of laundering is to make money appear legally obtained at a glance. While most crypto winners are coke fiends, not all are, so if they want money for reasons other than drugs they need that money converted into real money.