Yeah, that is actually a very relevant precedence. Anti-money laundering laws once created to control the mafia took on a whole new meaning with the war on drug

Yeah, that is actually a very relevant precedence. Anti-money laundering laws once created to control the mafia took on a whole new meaning with the war on drugs and then again with the war on terror. Governments (rightly) understand that the flow of money is the best tracer bullet available to them. I'm certainly no expert, but I suspect that anonymous transaction brokers (eg Bitcoin exchanges) probably do fall foul of some anti-money laundering law.