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Most cash transactions are legitimate, but are you 100% confident that most cash volume is legitimate?

I’m not 100% sure if anything, but I’ll go with 99% sure that most cash transaction is not money laundering.

Cool, now answer the actual question. Are you 99% sure that most cash volume is not money laundering?

I’m sure that far more cash transactions by volume are not money laundering compared to tornado cash. Tornado cash’s only real purpose is money laundering.

> Then, by assuming that any cash that the surveyed consumers do not fess up to holding must be held for nefarious purposes, he concludes that 34 to 39 percent of all currency in circulation is used by criminals.[1]

By contrast only 14% of Tornado Cash activity has been traced to illegal activity.

https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=...

You are using two very different methodologies, which is unsound.

How can you possibly know that?