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Re:Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. poli... by Y_Y on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:55AM (#27128828)
And assuming all tumbled coins were tainted? Perhaps you could, but then I can imagine tumblers paying "innocent" people (out-of-band) to tumble their coins, while charging money launderers to do the same. If you could get a big fraction of all the active coins/wallets to be "tainted" then people are much less likely to refuse to transact with them.
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Re:Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. poli... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:11AM (#27130546)
> can imagine tumblers paying "innocent" people (out-of-band) to tumble their coins, while charging money launderers to do the same

Perhaps. But the legal precedent is for laundered money to be tainted per se. The laundering itself taints the cash independent of any preceding criminality.

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