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Comment by yieldcrv | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]yieldcrv · 2026-07-02 Thu 08:14 UTC · link
yes, there are always a bunch of traders on every launch so this is easy and has been streamlined for years with pump.fun + bundlers, and similar services on other networks

bots hop in everything, and the bundler is the creator who has lots of alts, market can bear this

in this case the bundler would be all processed tainted money, or the tainted money is another trader later

and your clean KYC'd money would be one of the traders that showed up

you bought at launch, and it pumped. hurray. reiterating that you have to sell into liquidity - we're talking about liquidity pools onchain here, no exchange companies - and then moving the proceeds to an exchange.

with the groups of addresses being unlinked this whole time, the only other thing to consider is connecting to an RPC server under different IP addresses, or connecting to your own node onprem. it doesn't matter if you assume, you have to prove for it to matter, and assuming incriminates everyone that actually picked the right token and had nothing to do with anything. there are plenty of people making 10,000%+ gains in random crypto tokens, amongst those taking losses, you're just another one.

yes, some people money launder successfully. you'll find out decades later while the attorney general exclusively parades around outdated and misapplied methods that failed