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Sorry, just scratching a pet peeve: > Him cashing in Bitcoin is circumstantial. Other than confessions, most convictions happen mostly on the basis of circums
by Tuna-Fish 7y ago
Sorry, just scratching a pet peeve:
> Him cashing in Bitcoin is circumstantial.
Other than confessions, most convictions happen mostly on the basis of circumstantial evidence. TV and movies have taught people that circumstantial evidence is "weak" and insufficient to get a conviction. This is simply not true. Sufficient amount of circumstantial evidence will put you in jail. The job of the prosecutor is not to meet some specific pre-defined standard, it's to convince the jury.
And if the prosecutor has just spent the last hour talking to the jury about how they could track that x amount of stolen credits were sold for x bitcoin at date y, and this bitcoin was then fed to a mixer, and that on those same day or soon after you converted 0.95x BTC to $, and you could not positively prove where that money came from, if your strategy was just:
> "I bought some bitcoin for cash a decade ago"
Good luck with that.
- koheripbal 7y agoNot only that - circumstantial evidence is enough for a search warrant, and a search warrant almost ALWAYS reveals additional evidence. The point is that once the cops know who you are, you're fucked. Even if they are using classified methods to ID you, they'll then find something circumstantial to get warrants until they find you. The only way to get away is to completely avoid detection in the first place.