[ksksks1]

Not really. You buy mining resources to mine it as opposed to purchasing already mined bitcoin.

There’s rarely any paper trail between buying GPUs/ASICs and the mining itself. That’s why these currently sell above the amount they’d be profitable mining with. Because illicit actors are willing to pay a premium for anonymous crypto.

[colinmhayes]

Where can you buy GPUs/ASICs with crypto? Or are you just talking about the buyers? If the sellers get spooked I'm not sure it matters if buyers are safe.