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So, one agent was caught and convicted of theft, on an unrelated matter, and this is evidence of corruption? Wouldn't that, in fact, be evidence of a system that is successfully punishing corruption?

And since the transaction history is traceable, you cannot posit mysterious other transactions that are unaccounted for. Those would be quickly revealed.

Interesting twitter thread about the corruption in the Silk Road case: https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927617216655360

> Wouldn't that, in fact, be evidence of a system that is successfully punishing corruption?

I think that's the OP's point? The system (successfully) invested a lot of effort tot punish the corruption.

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