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by rrll22 1967 days ago
> Every Satoshi can be traced back to when it was mined

This is blatantly wrong, do you have a source for that? Transactions can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs; "which satoshi comes from which input" is not a valid question; transactions are about value sums of inputs and outputs.

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Is there any reason to think that the taint bit wouldn’t be applied to all outputs from such a transaction, just as a mob money laundering operation didn’t avoid prosecution because some of the income was legitimate?