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Drug enforcement officers on the take shocker.

I though this was common knowledge. Arrest and find 2 lbs and $20k, person gets charged with 1 lb and $10k

The twist being, Bitcoin is so far from even pseudo-anonymous that stealing the cash would have been much, much smarter. The Blockchain, it turns out, is the least anonymous way to transact. All your ledger made public forever, what could possibly go wrong?

Sure, with perfectly clean CoinJoins, mixing, etc. you might possibly be able to hide the coins, for a little while. Just don't ever try to actually, you know, spend them.

This is something I'm still wrapping my head around because I've read that Bitcoin tumblers are effective. But it's like you said: all transactions are public.

Any kind of structuring or splitting is an obstacle but not an insurmountable one. And crucially: it is strong evidence for knowing that you're up to something illegal.

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