you need valid ID to join financial services anywhere in the EU or the company can limit its business to a single country but how each company deals with that issue is up to them. some of the bitcoin exchanges probably are sketchy enough to ask for silly things like these pictures; there may be safer / more sensible checks on others but that would be for those people who do want to use bitcoin for legit stuff. As for legit currency it is not possible to open an online account in Euros with a NL bank without a valid NL address; this appears to be one of the few instances where security considerations override the single European market…
@p0lski 594022 wrote:
I do believe SR2 got shut down due to FBI being part of the making of the site from the start. I dunno what sort of jail time you’d get in the UK for being a TOR vendor but surely it can’t be anywhere as bad as the US justice system, they love handing out decades of jail time over there, even if you get caught with one joint, pretty sure you’re on probation for at least a year, regular drug tests and forced to go to some kind of treatment programme. It’s a bit OTT IMO.
about 1-2 years extra; more because it shows a greater level of sophistication. I’ve been personally told by those who did some high level tracking/investigation work in the 80s that the more “low tech” your crime is the less trouble you get in as cops just think you are an “ordinary dumb criminal” – the moment you combine law breaking with advanced use of computers/technology you can get worse penalties as courts think you should be using your brainpower for more productive purposes.
I think the use of darknets/TOR (due to its complexity; extra effort and the economies of scale in bulk buying) have also created a new network of middle level dealers from middle class groups who previously would have not been as prominent or would have stuck to usage alone; which is the greater annoyance to the cops/feds worldwide.
The only legit thing I can currently think of you could buy (or rent) with bitcoin (is a Microsoft Azure server although there is ohter stuff (mostly computer related) – and I’m not even 100% sure what exactly that is (I think its just a virtualised Windows Server in a cloud database similar to the one at work but in some random country rather than a comms rack). And TBH if did even buy one for fun (even in legit money) I’d question my own sanity whether or not I had taken drugs.
