Bitcoin Tumbling: For Privacy Advocates or Money Launderers?

Bitcoin Tumbling: For Privacy Advocates or Money Launderers?

Can you make solid parallels between accounting or financial practices in the fiat currency world and the digital currency world? In a less and less private world, is seeking privacy in your digital financial transactions wrong? Can you "launder money" in the digital realm if Bitcoin is not actually, legally money? These grey area questions are coming up more and more as Bitcoin changes the way courts, business, lawyers, and entire countries define money. If you listen to someone explain a Bitcoin transaction tumbling operation, or "Prima facie", a technique that gained global exposure in....


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