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Re:When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018) by logifail on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:02PM (#26217151)
> laundering the funds into Canada unfortunately does not seem it would be difficult in practice

Is this true only if you're sufficiently under the radar, or does it still hold true no matter how big/famous/wanted a criminal you are?

EDIT: see

https://www.step.org/industry-news/canadian-citizens-challen...

and

https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/guidance-directives/client-...

??

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Re:When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018) by retrac on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:09PM (#26217210)
Of course some people get caught. (Though some of what I'm describing wouldn't be considered illegal under Canadian law in the first place. You can just buy property with BTC here if you have BTC.) Still, it's a huge problem:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cullen-commi...

https://globalnews.ca/news/7593419/bc-casinos-too-dangerous-...

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