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Blacklisting the coins would be easy: Exchanges simply close your account if you receive a large number of BTC that have been tumbled. It's easy to identify the coins and to easy to close the accounts while refunding the coins.

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Seems like the future will be full of black-market banks and money laundering (as opposed to how its always been ;-) #PanamaPapers)

Is this the most difficultt financial problem: We don't want government watching every single move we make, yet we dont want criminals to be able to easily hide all their nefarious actions...

Where is the correct balance?

We have those who are supposedly the beacons of the tech future now being revealed as just as bad as others...

Faith in humanity is being assaulted a fair bit more than it had been in the last few decades...




Part of the correct balance is not having people like Brock Pierce leading the Bitcoin Foundation.




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