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This is concerning: At one point, when the founders suggested they create a version of the service that would adhere to federal anti-money-laundering and know-
by umeshunni 3y ago
This is concerning:
At one point, when the founders suggested they create a version of the service that would adhere to federal anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer rules, the investors at the venture capital fund “dismissed the idea,” the indictment says. One of them allegedly wrote “it would be unlikely that as a fund we’d use a ‘compliant mixer.’”
- appplication 3y agoWhat does compliant mixer mean here?
- wmf 3y agoMaybe only legit people would be allowed to use it. Clean money in, anonymous clean money out.
- jfengel 3y agoClean money in, less anonymous clean money out. They would have to charge for the service. The number of people who would pay to have their money anonymized for purely legal reasons isn't zero, but it seems less likely to be a going concern.
- meepmorp 3y agoCompliant with money laundering laws.
- appplication 3y agoOk that much I get, but what is a mixer?
- tansan 3y agoIt's a term for a money pool that breaks the transaction trail in crypto
- meepmorp 3y agoBlockchains transactions are public, which makes tracking individuals and the parties they conduct those transactions somewhat straightforward. Mixers take coins from various wallets, "mix" them through various methods, then transfer them to another wallets. This is meant to obscure the link between the original source of the coins and their ultimate destination. Crypto coin laundries.