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Which means that if you really want to clean dirty BTC, you need to simply use it to pay for miners, then mine clean BTC.


how would that work if it is unspendable


Unspendable with who?

Seems if you can't go to exchanges, going to private corps or individuals who don't follow the ban lists would likely work, makes it their problem.

Of course, scale matters. Buying a couple of rigs off random sellers willing to take BTC should be trivial, but if you need a warehouse full of them...


> who don't follow the ban lists would likely work, makes it their problem.

which is how you launder money today! And dirty money is certainly worth less than clean money.


Of course it is, I said nothing different.

I was responding to the question of "how would it work?", not "is it worth 100% of the same 'clean' funds?".

Different circumstances and market conditions will make the discount variable.




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