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Re:The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet by ur-whale on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:14PM (#17404920)
We're not talking about buying a couple of miner machines here, but financing a whole warehouse filled with them.
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Re:The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet by SilasX on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @09:32PM (#17405185)
Which would make it harder to conceal the dubious origin of the money.
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Re:The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet by ur-whale on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:19AM (#17407531)
Not really.

From the p.o.v of the seller of mining hardware, he's just selling hardware in exchange for money, and he has no KYC/AML requirement, he's not a bank, he's just a regular business.

And any other company involved in building the mining operation are the same way.

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Re:The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet by SilasX on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @12:35PM (#17409553)
Right but the point of laundering is that you have cash you want to legitimize, so it must "re-enter" as cash. But hardware mining sales are all online, not cash, hence my original comment!
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Re:The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet by RIMR on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @10:04PM (#17405292)
Unless you're buying crates of stolen GPUs off the black market with heaps of cash.

I am betting these guys have some connections.

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