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by arisAlexis 2024 days ago
Crime like downloading a movie from pirate Bay?
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I wager way more people did that in its heyday than have a moral objection (rather than an, err, pragmatic one) to custodial wallets. Further, copyright infringement tends to be a low priority civil matter, while laundering billions of dollars tends to be a high priority criminal matter.
the laundering of billions of dollars is usually done in, dollars which are totally anonymous rather than a transparent blockchain that transmits all your transactions to the feds.
Only because bitcoin isn't used by anyone. I'm not willing to wait for that to switch.