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So would any business that accepts Bitcoin be in legal trouble if it accepted these coins? An individual that accepts them?

• rprasad 14y ago
  No. Knowing receipt of stolen property is a crime. However, bitcoins are not considered property, nor can they be considered stolen, under current U.S. law.
  • politician 14y ago
    Do you if anyone is compiling a list of stolen addresses?
    • hippich 14y ago
      no, because funds might be easily transfered to another address. and after that you need to mark new address as "bad" again. and it become complicated when only part of funds transfered to another address. and it become even more complicated when funds transfered to "pool" address, of big exchanger like mtgox for example. and these funds end up in hands of honest users..
      • VMG 14y ago
        I doubt that creating a graph of "tainted" addresses would be very difficult.
        • hippich 14y ago
          something like this? http://blockchain.info/taint/1dice7EYzJag7SxkdKXLr8Jn14WUb3Cf1 http://blockchain.info/taint/1dice7EYzJag7SxkdKXLr8Jn14WUb3C...