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I think the "maintaining" is the key part here. Now that the hackers have the coins, how do they do anything with them without getting caught? How do you contin
by bradstewart 5y ago
I think the "maintaining" is the key part here. Now that the hackers have the coins, how do they do anything with them without getting caught? How do you continue that over years and years and years?
- skilled 5y agoYeah, that's what I meant with my original statement. I am thinking of comparing this to something like winning the lottery, like millions worth of free money. I think the contrast to acquiring such large sums of money illegally is pretty high. Like, I don't think this person or group of people are able to live their lives and not constantly think about it.
- mrkramer 5y agoFunny enough it is easier to launder cash than Bitcoins because shadow banks can help you to launder cash, on the other hand with Bitcoin everything is on chain forever.
- stnikolauswagne 5y agoBut wouldn‘t any Bitcoin Tumbler just break that chain link? I guess 3.5B are gonna be a pain either way, but at that scale cash has much bigger logistical issues.
- boring_twenties 5y agoKind of, but not really. The tumbling transaction is itself public. If anything, this would spread the taint to all other outputs of that tumbler, not remove it from your own output.
- stnikolauswagne 5y agoIsn‘t that pretty much all major tumblers? I swear 90% of the stories about ETH fraud end up with „the money was sent to tornado.cash afterwards“, yet I never hear about wallets dealing with tornado facing any repercusions.