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by smallnamespace 3067 days ago
> None of this is new, it's just shinier

Yes, but again, costs matter (this time on the other side). Money laundering with physical cash is expensive, risky, and time consuming.

You need to first get a bunch of physical cash, which itself raises suspicion and is easily tracked. Then you need to find someone in the physical world that you trust to help launder for you.

If you reduce the cost of 'money laundering' by 2-3 orders of magnitude, it indirectly raises the cost of enforcement significantly, because then the government will have to sort out all the 'harmless' infringement from the serious crimes that it cares about today.