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You’re right, a crypto mixer primarily used to launder money or evade taxes is *exactly the same* as highways and SMS.


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Let's imagine for a second that I owned a physical bricks-and-mortar business with a shopfront that took physical cash (USD banknotes), then mixed it up in a big laundry machine with banknotes from other customers, and then I give you back some other banknotes which are totally random (less a fee).

Let's also say I don't do any Know Your Customer checks (KYC).

Do you think that should be legal (like highways and SMS) or illegal (like money laundering)?


You can literally go through the rekt leaderboard [1] and count how many of the stories end with "and then the funds were routed to tornado cash, fin." It's not exactly a secret, and it doesn't require any specuation.

[1] https://rekt.news/leaderboard/





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