had the same thoughts after seeing the reddit thread for it as well:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1ks7a1o/worlds_largest_darknet_market_take_down_40b/
that links to that article with slighty different numbers but still in about the same ballpark:
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/elliptic-data-telegram-market-takedown

back in april there was also the whole “3520” BTC ($330M at the time) that been “social engineered to some US boomer by some somalian in the UK”, still waiting on more news regarding if any arrest been made since they allegedly identified the “thefts”?
that was what started the pump since alot of those been transfered to XMR through instant swap exchanges

and more recently the coinbase hack that their customer service been bribed to leak customers accounts, also about $300M worth stollen but only seen reports of the troll $42.5M transaction transaction to ETH with the “L bozo <youtube link>” message:
https://xcancel.com/officer_cia/status/1925341673879445757
so havent seen report on those getting transfered to XMR but maybe some have been slowly?

but for that chinese market, it’s actually a fuck ton of users in the $bilions so guessing it’ll definitely have an impact on that buy pressure overtime as well as the short term

awesome, looking forward to it!
and dont worry about pushing things down
delays are good & can be worth the wait
similar as haveno that been delayed a fuck ton and was definitely worth the wait, so as fcmp++ will be too :)

hai hai lol, tenkyu for the welcome <3

i mean, the community is alright, it has a “warn” system which would be similar as localmonero’s traders reputation system, it goes from 0% to 100% by 10% increments, it takes a lot and lots of actual shitposting just to get to the first 10% tbh
and if scamming then getting those “forum golds (fg): locked / scammer”

like, on the monero thread from 2023, got trolled a lil bit u know (mofo had 20% warn and nowadays 60% lmao)
but i also lost my chill here and there, like, those gamer dudes can just be really obnoxious you know lol, but even then, i just got the temp bans for like 10mins / 30mins / 45mins for probably a dozen times at least, but no warn increase, still stayed at 0% warn and also it still gives the reasons like “innapropiate thing or whatever” cause i posted a meme that was a dildo for “what people think bitcoin is” and a tree branch or something for “what people actually get with bitcoin” or something along those lines

like, better than reddit / automod that instantly deletes a thread and even after multiple edits still can’t figure out wtf is wrong and why it actually keeps being caught in the reddit / automod filter, like over there can actually post without worrying if the post even gonna show up in the first place, and formating a thread feels nicer too

the trading is still very active for the newer version of diablo 2 which released in 2021 (Diablo 2 Resurected (D2R)), ladder are resets every ~4 months (as opposed to original Diablo 2 LoD that was ladder resets every 6 months) so now about 3 times a year compared to the 2 times a year
something else that works as a “reputation system” is the 2/3 rule which some people only trade depending on that, some dont care, it’s 3 variables “joined date, post amounts, gold amounts” so for example an account that joined at an older date & have more golds usually have the other party send first since that is the most “trusted” based on that 2/3 rule thing, mediators on demand are also a thing for the more expensive trades
also, people be scaling their computing power to run those bots way before bitcoin even was a even thing, some made millions by selling those fg offsite (against their ToS), but it pretty much has been bitcoin before bitcoin, just on a centralized forum with centralized database, the trading is P2P tho

there’s a “political & religious debate (PaRD)” section for like all that stuff, aint really my cup of tea but posted over there a bit prior to the US elections since i yolo’d 100% of my life savings on “red” through monero vegas lol, since won and posted about a smol transaction there, then posted the private key as a giveaway, was redeemed from this PaRD thread (even tho also posted in the monero thread too):
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=105172131&f=119

for the “Investment & Finance” section (where the Monero thread is at), it had a bit of activity for crypto thingies but i guess i just 1v9’d them or somethin and now everyone just silent on that which is boring af… it’s mostly the “stock traders” now that keep posting, they have threads that are like 700 pages or somethin, just a bunch of boomers pretty much lol
the “XRP” thread was closed few days ago, cause OP was just spamming “XRP” in all bold letters over and over again without having any actual discussion (which i had to be the one to disclose the supply chain attack that happened last month…), like, i didnt even reported his thread for spam, he just got it closed on his own i guess…
stoopid lol

there was a “bitcoin” thread, a “cryptocurrency” thread but i really think i just went to stronk on them like actually…
and threads over there are automatically closed after 3 months of inactivity
which is unfortunate cause ik there’s a few people over there that are very techy, the forum in itself was created for a botting script or something back in the days, the botting / dev community used to be bigger back then sadly

and even on the “Programming & Development” section, made a thread back in April regarding the FCMP++ coding competition to june 30th for a total reward of 350 xmr that was posted on reddit:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=106142961&f=120
but even then, 150 views and not a single reply, sadly…

the brain-rot got to that community as well, but it used to be a great source of information with very well written guides with some very in-depth math, some crazy theorycrafting next level math u know, but nah, nowadays the twatter brain-rot got worldwide, pretty sad lol

since i :tinfoil: af tho, there’s one aspect that i like is that, can’t edit the posts after 30mins of posting so at least am like, aight, if accounts or whatever get hacked, at least those messages & links cant be tempered with (unless actually compromising admin account or something) but after 2 decades, that’s a better track record than bitcoin so far lol
and also, it’s actually searchable in search engines, unlike nowadays everything is behind closed walled gardens like the discords or whatever that those search engine can’t pick up on
didnt ross posted his silk road thing on bodybuildings forum or somethin? x)
linux forums, warez forums, those were the days search engines were still working properly, now it’s all AI and that’s sad

reddit is for the reach
there was a time when looking up how to troubleshoot a techy thing or what, would type on search engine something like:
site:reddit.com "keywords"
the other day made a thread over there and within 5mins after posting it had “18k views” which i was like “aintnoway that’s right, /r/Monero is dry af lol” and instantly thought that it’s just scrapping bots and shits
reddit is not even usable at this point, can’t post anywhere, if new then gotta wait mod approval which are usually never even happening anyways so i wont even feel bad about it if the whole subreddit gets nuked out of this shitty website eventually
and if u saw the reddit experiment thing that happened recently with the bots on the “changemyview” subreddit or whatever
reddit is literally ran by bots for the bots and not even practical for the actual hoomans lol

still, the reach…
numbers going up might not matter but the adoption in itself does so i get it if the /r/Monero mods still want to keep it for as long as they can
but for the community, yeah, reddit just aint about that and we definitely do need something community-oriented, monero.town hasnt had any adoption tho so that’s pretty sad…

hai hai, long time no see indeed lol
the VM for Matrix been sitting on an encrypted drive for years at this point and i just too lazy lol, just been keeping up to date reading through reddit and the monerologs pretty much, was still posting on reddit here and there once every few months or so (last thread was the “some cryptocoin is attempting an attack on monero’s network” or something like that but ended up deleting it after couple days cause was like “meh, not worth it giving that shit attention lol”

but been doing aight yea, moved to a new place, chillin with bae, walkies with the doggos and the cat happy too
and for online pretty much just been posting on the videogaming forum thing, even if doesnt have any reach, it’s a community that been trading videogame items peer to peer for over 2 decades now, many that dont even play the videogames anymore but just shitposting here and there with everyone having their own lives / their own views on the world and disagreeing on all of the topics, while i feel like the internet nowadays are literally just echochambers and i hate it lol so is kind of my safe space type thing over there i guess lol

hbu? what’s poppin? was it u that was planning a Haveno tutorial video thing on youtube or somethin?
cause wanted to link that as well but then didnt see anything about it so still went ahead and made new thread (that cant edit after 30mins of posting anyways)
nice seeing u still around too <3

edit: oh right, noticed your reply on your thread as well but was too lazy to bother the mods yet again for a “can u approve a reply here? x)”, but was single purpose VM for reddit that kept the exact same network configuration for years, didnt change IP, was the same IP (from VPN, aint doing the TOR thing, only thing remote to that is with Haveno but it’s on its own separate rig / single purpose VM and on a completely different network anyways)

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