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And what's the value of drugs trafficked over public highways? Or illegal activity coordinated over SMS? Using volume of illegal activity cannot be the primary

• yunohn 4y ago
  You’re right, a crypto mixer primarily used to launder money or evade taxes is *exactly the same* as highways and SMS.
  • lampshades 4y ago
    • Closi 4y ago
      Let's imagine for a second that I owned a physical bricks-and-mortar business with a shopfront that took physical cash (USD banknotes), then mixed it up in a big laundry machine with banknotes from other customers, and then I give you back some other banknotes which are totally random (less a fee). Let's also say I don't do any Know Your Customer checks (KYC). Do you think that should be legal (like highways and SMS) or illegal (like money laundering)?
    • polygamous_bat 4y ago
      You can literally go through the rekt leaderboard [1] and count how many of the stories end with "and then the funds were routed to tornado cash, fin." It's not exactly a secret, and it doesn't require any specuation. [1] https://rekt.news/leaderboard/ https://rekt.news/leaderboard/
    • res0nat0r 4y ago
      ? https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916