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That's what laundering is for. I'm not that familiar with bitcoins. How easy would it be to launder the coins?

• ansy 15y ago
  The coins are a mechanism for laundering. My point is you can't launder goods. Heroin is heroin is illegal no matter how you came about it. You could have gotten the drugs for free without cash, credit, bitcoins, goats, bushels of corn, or anything. It's still illegal to have heroin. With Silk Road, the drugs have to go somewhere. And there's probably a paper trail leading to the origin of the package as well unless the dude is driving across the country before dropping it in the mail Ted Kaczynski style.
  • matthavener 15y ago
    Still, I wonder if this circumvents some of the law. If you can't prove I paid for some drugs, am I less likely to be prosecuted? If a random shipment of drugs showed up at my door with no transaction to match them with, am I even at fault?
    • SwellJoe 15y ago
      If so, I imagine politicians, police chiefs, judges, etc., will begin receiving gifts in the mail on a regular basis. Anyone with enemies, of any sort and for any reason, could be targeted. People have been raided based on where a package was shipped, in absence of proof of payment (I recall reading a story, I believe linked from HN, about a family whose dog ended up getting killed in the resulting raid, following a box of drugs being delivered to the wrong house as part of a sting). Anonymity just makes it really easy to get away with setting people up.
    • nerfhammer 15y ago
      It's not like people had previously been paying for drugs with credit cards, personal checks and/or direct deposit
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