Yesterday and today I have noticed some curious sale offers on Robosats. It seems to me that one seller, utilizing separate robots, is offering to sell bitcoin at a 30% (!) premium in a whole bunch of currencies I have never seen traded before (Chinese Yuan, Swedish Kroner, Israeli Sheqel, Ugandan Shilling, to name a few). Acceptable forms of payment are any national bank from these countries.
At first I assumed it was someone hoping to sell at a premium to people in countries without liquid bitcoin markets. That's possible, but how could one person be able to trade in all of these currencies?
It seems very strange to me. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
Could this be a currency trading desk, some kind of scam? I can't imagine a large organization doing this for such modest amounts of fiat.
# Cur Ask/Bid num market rate 18 HUF Ask 1 0.00053358 37483000 19 ILS Ask 1 0.00050653 394840 20 PLN Ask 1 0.00050630 395020 21 HKD Ask 1 0.00049951 800780 22 SEK Ask 1 0.00049174 1016800 23 AUD Ask 1 0.00048190 166010 24 UGX Ask 1 0.00047259 380880000 25 NZD Ask 1 0.00047214 180030 26 CHF Ask 1 0.00047180 84782 27 JPY Ask 1 0.00047176 14838000 28 SGD Ask 1 0.00047071 138090 29 CNY Ask 1 0.00046327 755500 30 AED Ask 1 0.00044801 379460 31 NOK Ask 1 0.00044791 1116300 32 DKK Ask 1 0.00043729 686050 33 CZK Ask 1 0.00043299 2309500 34 ZAR Ask 1 0.00039273 2037000 35 TRY Ask 1 0.00038182 3928600Seeing it on my onion (
http://tp4defxzepvm6igehdme27ewpakdqzrwj5qer2r7emxsydoruu7nxuyd.onion/)..."Any National Bank"...Market exploration?
Yes. Maybe. This is the second day in a row that I have noticed it.
They'll all expire tomorrow between 7pm and 8pm UTC. I'll take another snapshot at 6pm UTC bar being busy day drinking and see what's still there.
The
CHFoffer is no longer listed already.... and now it is back. strange. Does that happen when a trade fails?
Now that I've seen this answer it really does seem like a test.
Yeah it really looks like someone is testing something. Not sure what the something is but I like to think that a scam would want to entice volume with discounts, not a 30% premium.
# Cur Ask/Bid num market depth rate 20 AUD Ask 1 0.00045937 174150 21 HUF Ask 1 0.00050644 39491000 22 ILS Ask 1 0.00048948 408600 23 PLN Ask 1 0.00047957 417040 24 HKD Ask 1 0.00047263 846320 25 SEK Ask 1 0.00046725 1070100 26 NZD Ask 1 0.00045191 188090 27 SGD Ask 1 0.00044973 144530 28 UGX Ask 1 0.00044834 401480000 29 CHF Ask 1 0.00044732 89422 30 JPY Ask 1 0.00044442 15751000 31 CNY Ask 1 0.00043923 796850 32 NOK Ask 1 0.00042930 1164700 33 AED Ask 1 0.00042374 401190 34 DKK Ask 1 0.00041683 719720 35 CZK Ask 1 0.00041227 2425600 36 ZAR Ask 1 0.00037897 2111000 37 TRY Ask 1 0.00036173 4146700As of 6pm UTC, all are still there.
(edit: I missed
AUDinitially because it went up the list due to other new listings appearing)Maybe it's the North Korean Lazarus group laundering money.
Those guys are pretty sharp. I think they have more effective methods. 😀
I think so too
Could this be some kind of money laundering or even a test operation?
I don't know, but it seems it would be incredibly laborious for a small payout. I find it really weird. Think of the exchange rate worries, etc. even if you use an app that accepts foreign currencies. Also, these aren't really popular currencies that are
thinking about it, it could be a lay user doing something stupid there
Lazarus
sounds like forex traders (fiat shitcoiners) have discovered robosats!
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