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Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by matheusmoreira on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:36PM (#30226384)
> What? The value is the same.

Nope. It's impossible to cash out a tainted bitcoin since it cannot be deposited at exchanges. Its value is essentially zero.

> How's 1 BTC is not fungible [to another BTC] unless you're wanna hide your bitcoin transaction history?

Every bitcoin can be distinguished by its transaction history. If you try to use a mixing service, that fact will be known and the resulting bitcoins will be tainted. Exchanges will assume they are laundered funds.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by ahtihn on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:45PM (#30226481)
> Its value is essentially zero.

No it's not. It's worth a bit less than face value, but you can cash it out by swapping to other cryptos.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by matheusmoreira on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:48PM (#30226517)
And why would anyone ever accept tainted bitcoin in exchange for anything?
Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by everfree on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:17PM (#30226817)
Because everyone's definition of taint is different, and coming up with a globally recognized universal definition of taint is logistically impossible.

To you, you might be trying to break your link with a Bitcoin mixer by wrapping those bitcoins and uniswapping them for a different asset on Ethereum.

To me, I simply went to Uniswap and bought some wrapped bitcoins, then deposited them on a traditional exchange.

Re:Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard by everfree on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:09PM (#30226731)
> It's impossible to cash out a tainted bitcoin since it cannot be deposited at exchanges. Its value is essentially zero.

Given the limitless number of cryptocurrencies coupled with the limitless number of exchanges, there will always be some series of hops that someone can make between cryptos such that by the end, there is no amount of algorithmic analysis your exchange can perform that will automatically connect the coins and block them. Manual intervention would be required, by a privileged law enforcement expert who is personally tracking that value across novel and disparate networks using domain-specific knowledge.