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Where does the clean money come from?

• olegkikin 9y ago
  "Clean" in this case only means not this stolen money. It can be some other stolen money. Or it can be borrowed money. The bitcoin tumbler is a service that does the mixing, and as long as it has more than one customer, it can do the mixing.
  • saalweachter 9y ago
    I really gotta wonder what sort of protection this actually provides. A tumbler only helps if a lot of people with legitimate BitCoins frequently mix them in, so that people with coins from a mixer have a plausible claim of innocence. If mixers are primarily used by criminals, you've only anonymized which crime you've committed, you haven't really laundered the money. If those coins touch your real-world identity, you may not be incriminated in a particular crime, but you've made yourself into a suspect in a relatively small pool of crimes.
    • olegkikin 9y ago
      You are correct. Tumbling is not laundering, it's only there to make the tracing close to impossible.
    • rocqua 9y ago
      Amortized guilt seems a lot better to me than specific guilt. Finding a charge in there is really difficult. As is 'beyond the shadow of a doubt'. Beyond that, you could buy legitimate bitcoin and only use it to 'legitimize' mixing pools.