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by kirykl 3437 days ago
Why commit a crime (money laundering) to hide a non crime?
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It's not money laundering to rearrange your payment structure to avoid currency conversions. If half your customers pay you in Yen and half your customers pay you in dollars, it's not a crime to use the Yen directly to pay your Japanese expenses.

Same goes with bitcoin - if you can find a server company that accepts your bitcoin - you're under no obligation to only buy things using dollars, assuming you are properly reporting your transactions.

(Disclaimer: IANAL)

My understanding is that money laundering refers specifically to illegally obtained money; it is perfectly legal to launder otherwise legal money.

Of course, attempting to do so would likely get you investigated, because it looks illegal.