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If I had to guess it's probably because those transactions originally come from the Silk Road. So while the hacking and money laundering aren't criminally liab

If I had to guess it's probably because those transactions originally come from the Silk Road. So while the hacking and money laundering aren't criminally liable, the coins themselves are proceeds from a criminal enterprise, and if you stand in the way of the government trying to get them you could be hit with obstruction(?). Realistically regardless of the technical level of criminality I doubt that the FBI would let a billionaire be minted with DNM money.

nullc 6y ago
Right, but if they had nothing else on Person X, I'm a little surprised that they were able to get these coins from them-- to forfeit the assets they'd have to get possession of them. Because all they could have traded (assuming there were no other viable criminal charges) would be keeping their identity secret.