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by bb88 1615 days ago
It's "money-laundering-for-good" but it's still money laundering.

There is a reasonable question where allowing money laundering for good would offset the use cases for those with more evil intentions.

My opinion is probably not since most people in Argentina are going to launder a fraction of a BTC at a time, but all that would be offset by the harm from criminal syndicates (drugs, human trafficking, even oppressive governments).

This feels like solving an edge case with a massive potential downside. It would be a shame to have provided a technology that freed the people of Argentina, but at the same time, allowed the narcos to enslave them.