you still haven't answered my question about how the US gvt could get away with the hypocrisy of auctioning off the SR coins while at the same time tainting others drug coins.
It is written into the law that seizure auctions clean the title, same as with seized cars, houses, etc. If anything that might be one reason for strong interest in these auctions. If you are a buyer with repetitional concerns the only two ways to buy known untainted coins are from a government auction or direct from a (reputable and verifiable) miner.
i know how the gvt couched this situation. my point is that there are alot of ppl in the community who think they should have returned the coins to the owners who left them on SR or flat out destroyed them. by selling them off under their own interpretation of the law, the gvt risks eroding faith in its sense of fairness in that application of the law. b/c of that, there will be alot of ppl transacting despite any attempt of gvt to "taint" coins. and then it becomes a matter of whether or not the gvt can trace what they've deemed tainted, hence the debate btwn tvbcof and me, as to whether or not they will be able to do this from a technical and politically correct way.