> Yeah, clean money has some extra value.
So in the context of your original post, with your provided definition now of clean money, can you clarify how the alternatives (selling to law enforcement / government, which is the most common alternative) would be “unclean”?
As for selling to another gov or law enforcement, how clean that money is will be relative to what your government thinks of your role. If you sell to say an unfriendly neighbor government, they're going to look at those proceeds a bit differently than say if you sold to THEM.
Clean for me is your likely local legal issues with the money, and/or your actions.
In the end though provided Microsoft isn't considered a terrible enemy by your local government, that probabbly is the cleanest way to sell, and IMO probabbly the safest morally IMO (granted morally and clean money might not always go hand in hand).
A check for helping out Microsoft is gonna be pretty clean.
Money you bring in from selling exploits might be something you don't want tracked back to its origin...
How likely is the less clean money going to get you in trouble I don't know, but the check from Microsoft surely will not.