Airfried comments on Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 21 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Starting to think people are treating these more like Pokemon cards rather than a computer. Gotta scalp 'em all.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Why not just buy drugs?

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[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

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.

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[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever read on here.

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

People are really obsessed that something nefarious is going on with steam hardware purchases, but I’ve never seen any evidence. Just wild speculation

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Haha, sounds like you might be overestimating your own intelligence (classic Lemmy syndrome, don't worry about it)

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago