> Can any sovereign determine funds are clean, perhaps pushing this to its logical extreme of becoming a funds cleaner? That's up to each sovereign. Each sover

> Can any sovereign determine funds are clean, perhaps pushing this to its logical extreme of becoming a funds cleaner? That's up to each sovereign. Each sovereign has the ability the set the rules by which you must run your business if you want to operate in their country. If you want to operate in the US (or do business with US financial institutions) then you have to follow the US rules for which transactions must be blocked. Since stolen property still belongs to the owner, recieving stolen property put can you at risk of having that property legally confiscated and returned to the owner. When operating in jurisdictions that allow this, blocking such transactions protects your customers. Thus there are two good reasons to engage in this kind of flagging, protecting yourself from regulatory authorities and protecting your customers against asset seizure.