I don't smoke meth, this isn't one of those posts but I can see where you might get that impression. Stay with me and keep the recent coinbase posts in mind...
Personal use purchases but large quantities from vendors who's names appear in the recent alpacino chat transcript. Usually pot and coke, I make good money, I'm a heavy user but I never sell. There is nothing IRL to attract attention to me.
I never sell bitcoins, only buy them. From coinbase, circle and a local d00d who mines.
I have bought at least $5000 from coinbase in the last year. I usually do a lame mixing job between my local miners coins and my purchased coins. I create a bunch of wallets and addresses, send a bunch of small transactions, fill up a few wallets across many addresses, its not perfect, but its reasonable enough doubt. Circle+Miner=Mixed, Coinbase+Miner=Mixed, separate wallets, no mixing of coinbase+circle.
Sometimes I get lazy, doped up, whatever and don't mix. Twice when using pure coinbase coins, upon the first confirmation of being added to a block, my mobile phone rings once with a local number one town away. The town was the same both times but I didn't pay attention to the number the first time it happened. I am wondering if this is coinbase or leo thinking I'm acting a money transmitter or the dea thinking I'm dealing?
It sounds crazy but I'm not the first person to post this situation here. Does anyone know what causes it? I'm a person of interest or just paranoid I guess.
EDIT: In the topic and other places in this post I mistyped stingray as stringray. At least I hope it was me.
I get around 3-5 phone calls a day from bots, telemarketers, whatever. Assuming everyone else does too.
With the volume of DNM orders, it is almost a certainty that someone is going to get some ring right after <insert event>
BY the way, there are > 100,000 BTC transactions every day.