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"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 do
by 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 agoI 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 agoYou are correct. Tumbling is not laundering, it's only there to make the tracing close to impossible.
- rocqua 9y agoAmortized 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.