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You can easily launder money through any two sided market. OF is no different in that regard.


In normal two-sided markets goods or services are being exchanged, making it feasible to check whether the price paid reflects reality in any way.

On the other hand, it is very difficult to prove that someone is faking being a fan, so laundering can be as easy as giving a friend N dollars of suspect cash or cryptocurrency and having them pay you N minus the hassle fee through Twitch/OnlyFans/etc. from their credit card.


You could probably use web analytics to reasonably estimate engagement and calculate engagement per spend, comparing that between users.




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