/biz/ - Business & Finance

>When we started, we were just the little guys in the neighborhood. Errand boys, shoe shiners, shitcoin flippers. The old guys, they had bought Bitcoin back in '07, leftover dust from their silk road weed and coke purchases had turned them into millionaires overnight, those who didn't waste it all on pizza anyway. Drug dealers and junkies were now running the country clubs, can you believe that? Then came the eth heads, Russians fresh off the boats, these guys saw the opportunities in the new market, and they didn't care whose turf they were selling on. They were successful at first but the old guys didn't like that and they retaliated. Gang wars escalated until the big crash, it was a blood bath. That brought scrutiny from the feds and the newspapers said to the world that it was over. The smart ones, like us, we knew we had to lay low, keep it smart, keep it quiet. We weren't kids no more, we saw that power vacuum and filled it with our autism. We ran the show while no one was looking. Forget about gambling, the drugs, whores... Chainlink. It was the heist of the century. We owned the market, and we weren't selling. We made so much money, we didn't even know what to do with it. We were so bored with making money, we even took over the Israeli loanshark and laundering schemes. Defi, we called it. It was decentralized, so they couldn't even RICO us, or that's what the lawyer said, some kind of loophole. We became untouchable. We were running this protocol, I think without even realizing it, we accidentally became the new federal reserve! We were literally printing money.

>That's when it all came crashing down. Forget about the FBI... the SEC and the IRS, those are the ones we should have been afraid of. Sergey's Cayman accounts, all our undeclared gains from the yield farming, the uni trades... That's how they took down Capone. It turns out, they were actually building a decentralized RICO case against us all this time. We all got summoned... to the Kleros Kourt.