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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by BlueTemplar on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:21PM (#26070319)
Since every bitcoin transaction is recorded, law enforcement is rather helped. There are "mixers" that supposedly allow to make it harder to figure out, but that didn't stop them from busting Silk Road !
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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by chrischen on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:24PM (#26072713)
The grandparent's use case of laundering it through an ATM in fact circumvents this.
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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by BlueTemplar on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:06AM (#26075354)
Good point. These are at a high risk of being outlawed then...
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