And even if you did, there’s no way for them to ever prove where your monero came from unless you fucked up during either the hack or the swap to monero.
Even if the IRS suspected that you’re lying to them, how could they prove it?
But yeah, I'm not claiming it's impossible to clean stolen ETH. The only claim I did was that the IRS will definitely start asking questions if you go from a declared income around average in the US to a declared income around $100 million from one year to another. To believe that they are just gonna accept "I mined it lol" is a grand delusion.
But $10 million a year? Perhaps much more if split over a couple of jurisdictions? No problem.
In the end this was about stolen $100 million being worth more than totally legit $2 million. I firmly believe that it would be downright easy to safely cash out $2 million a year from the stolen $100 million.
> To believe that they are just gonna accept "I mined it lol" is a grand delusion.
Unless you keep evidence of your crimes sitting around, at some point they’ll have to.
Assuming you use monero correctly, no amount of forensic analysis will be able to go back from your funds to the original crime.
And besides, the “early miner” story is hardly incredible. Many people have recovered huge sums of money from old hard drives.
> If you describe that you got $100 million from mining Monero, you're gonna have to show proof that you have the equipment to actually get that, over the timeframe you're claiming you have mined
This isn’t really a problem as long as you claim to have started mining early enough, fairly basic hardware would probably suffice.
Lol, you never actually handled the sums the submission is about right? The IRS will definitely ask questions about where the money you spend come from, if you end up on their radar. And if the answer is not satisfactory, they will grill you on it.