[anonymousab]

> This is an incredibly unrealistic money laundering scheme, entirely fabricated by mr_cyborg.

Using stolen money to buy gift cards, using those gift cards to buy real things and then selling those real objects or licenses or accounts after the fact is a well known process. Substituting "bitcoin" or any cryptocurrency for "gift card" is neither unreasonable nor unrealistic.

[rosndo]

This only makes sense where “stolen money” is money that you don’t actually control, such as stolen credit cards where the transactions will inevitably be charged back. In that case it does make sense to buy and sell gift cards in order to “cash out” the money.

This does not make any sense in the context of bitcoin.