Money laundering is a process of disguising the source of money. It is most commonly used to allow money from an illegal sources such as drug trafficking to be used as legitimate income.
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How does the blockchain.info shared receive work?
I understand the concept of a mixer and have succesfully used Blockchain.info wallet's shared send feature. The shared receiving address however confuses me. I assumed that one needs to click "new ...
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How does blockchain.info's mixing service work?
Blockchain provides a mixing service.
How does it work?
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What are tainted coins exactly?
I've come across the term of a tainted coin several times now.
I understand that coins, or better, the origin of a coin can be traced throughout the blockchain.
I've read that bitcoins can be ...
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If you trade with bitcoins, how do you manage to “explain” anti-laundering authorities the money-in & money-out?
When trading with bitcoins using mtgox, or bitcoin-24, or bitcoin.de, you will have in your account many transfers of money, to many people and from many people. In europe if the sum of the ...
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Are there mixing services or online wallets that are explicitly compliant with anti-laundering laws?
I'm interested in mixing services (0% taint) that are compliant with the most conservative anti-money laundering laws.
My goal is to have anonymity between peers in a transaction, but to remain ...
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Which Bitcoin exchanges allow anyone to fund your account by a bank transfer?
I know MtGox doesn't allow for such transfers to prevent money laundering. Which exchanges allow for anyone to fund your account with a bank transfer (USD preferable).
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Bitcoin mixing and transaction sizes
I'm pretty clear on how a Bitcoin mixer obscures transaction history, but I don't understand how an observer is not able to reasonably link the source and destination wallets simply based on the ...
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Unknown factor in bitcoin pool breakdown
Some time ago the breakdown was dangerously close to heaving too heavily towards Deepbit with only a small part unknown/single person miners. Now there's a 34% unknown factor.
What caused this? Are ...
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Can Bitcoin help people commit money laundering?
I don't have enough knowledge pertaining to the Bitcoin mechanism. Can Bitcoin help people commit money laundering?
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How is it possible to launder bitcoins?
Some services, such as bitcoinlaundry.com, claim that they can launder your bitcoins.
Since all bitcoin transactions are publicly logged, how is this done? Wouldn't it be possible to trace back the ...
