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Re:ZCash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin) technology preview by pmarreck on Friday February 05, 2016 @11:55PM (#11046606)
> "illegal" income

I found the problem. I don't think money has an intrinsic morality. It might be the result of (what some may deem) immoral action, but the money itself should not be illegal. There is nothing about "suddenly" having a lot of money which should be automatically illegal or prevented, and people should not have to explain every detail about how they obtained the money they did.

This kind of thinking leads to things like asset forfeiture abuse, where merely having a bunch of money on your person is apparently grounds for confiscation.

You may disagree, but I'm entitled to my opinion.

Re:ZCash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin) technology preview by cyphar on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:35AM (#11046924)
"illegal income" means "income that was acquired illegally". And I was specifically referring to money laundering (which in of itself is a fairly emotionally-charged term if you think that money can be "dirty" in a moral sense). I don't see how you could read "illegal income" as "illegal money". And yes, I agree that money doesn't have morality.