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Re:Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years by sbierwagen on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @02:05PM (#24991970)
You couldn't. An easy guess is that every bitcoin mixer is compromised. You could maybe withdraw $100 at a time from bitcoin ATMs, until KYC/AML forces ATM operators to maintain a coin/address blacklist.
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Re:Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years by gruez on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @02:53PM (#24992439)
>An easy guess is that every bitcoin mixer is compromised

there are trustless mixer networks[1]. The bigger problem is that you're going to run out of liquidity. You preferably want to exchange 1B of "dirty" bitcoin for 1B of "clean" bitcoin, not tumble the 1B of bitcoin and get back the same dirty coins.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin

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Re:Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years by square90 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:57PM (#24992980)
With $1B you could start your own mixers and hire people to run them. Or even start your own exchange.
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Re:Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years by zucker42 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:54PM (#24995519)
Anyone you'd hire would be risking breaking the law in the U.S. or some other country, plus you'd have no legal protection if they decided to screw you over.
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Re:Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years by gmadsen on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:36PM (#24992814)
exchanging to Monaro solves this problem.
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