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If you're a small enough fish you can assume that law enforcement won't bother to get back to you, especially if you're purchasing a small amount of weed or shr
by simias 7y ago
If you're a small enough fish you can assume that law enforcement won't bother to get back to you, especially if you're purchasing a small amount of weed or shrooms online instead of child pornography or hiring a hitman.
Then it's more about convenience than anything else. Bitcoin usability is abysmal when compared to Paypal or Visa but it's pretty great when neither of these things are an option and usually drug dealers won't manage to get a Visa or Paypal vendor account working for very long.
- arcticbull 7y ago> If you're a small enough fish you can assume that law enforcement won't bother to get back to you... yet. If this becomes a problem, it will be fully automated. Why wouldn't it be? You're literally leaving a trail of every unlawful payment you've ever made and waving it around in front of police. You don't think they'll pay someone to automate de-anonymiziation and automatic suspicious transaction flagging? At least with Visa they need a warrant.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoIt reminds me of yesterday's story about states going after decades old public assistance overpayments. Somebody at a firm like Deloitte will figure out how to automate it and sell it as a service to law enforcement.
- ses1984 7y agoAutomated like red light cameras? That went over well.
- arcticbull 7y agoRunning a red doesn’t fund international terrorism and skirt sanctions. Trust me if it did every single person a hair over the line would have tickets up to their eyeballs.
- dhosek 7y agoI think you misunderstood—they do have tickets up their eyeballs now.
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- tyfon 7y agoWon't they have to prove in court that the payment was indeed for the purchase of weed and not payment for something legal? It could be a loan/gift or whatever made to the individual by someone who is not knowledgeable about their criminal behaviour like a cousin or uncle. I don't live in the US but it seems from what the police say on the tv series cops that all are to be treated as innocents until proven otherwise.. But then again, me and my friends here in Norway has always reworded that to "All blacks are considered guilty until proven white" so it might not really mean anything in practice.
- reaperducer 7y agoWon't they have to prove in court that the payment was indeed for the purchase of weed and not payment for something legal? If you purchase from someone who's only job was selling weed, and deposited your money into his account labeled "weed sales," then they probably have a good case.
- tyfon 7y agoIf you label it weed sales of course, but if you label it gift or whatever there is no such proof. I'm not in this business myself but I suspect they don't write these things down in the transaction but I've been wrong before :p
- nyolfen 7y agoif that's all they have, it's a good case for a warrant at best, or maybe reason to decline granting security clearance
- duxup 7y agoMaybe ... but the point is, they can always get back to you.