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by mihaifm 1921 days ago
> 10 Bitcoin were transferred and then cashed out anonymously a few days later.

Genuinely interested how the coins were cashed out anonymously. Pretty much all exchanges require KYC these days, and Bitcoin addresses can be tracked and blacklisted if the right processes are put in place, in theory at least.

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It could have taken time for the BTC from his wallet to be marked as tainted. Once that happens, the person who buys the 10BTC is bag holding. I wonder what happens if it's an exchange holding tainted BTC, though. Will it be excluded from the supply indefinitely?
There are shady services that will convert bitcoin to monero with no questions asked.
You use them to buy stuff on the darknet and resell.

Classic money laundering.

hi @mihaifm -- it could simply be a wallet address that one can forward the coins to I believe?
That probably just means it was moved to another BTC address.