Quote from: Biodom on September 27, 2015, 03:53:54 PM

Quote from: dnaleor on September 27, 2015, 03:05:20 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on September 26, 2015, 03:49:28 AM

Quote from: smoothie on September 26, 2015, 03:45:07 AM

Everyone's spent outputs combined with everyone's spent outputs? Not all the time.

LIke I said in the OP there will come a day when a new user will buy bitcoins (say locally for cash) and when he goes to use them at a business or exchange or where ever they will be rejected. Not 100% of the time...but it will happen and we all know how the media today loves to jump on anything bitcoin related that is negative.

Please reference the OP as it was a prediction and just that.

Ok, I'll grant you that, but is it really a big deal if it outputs aren't combined "all the time"?
The people that have the "hottest" Bitcoins are obviously going to go to the most trouble to
mix and detaint them...and they do that already not because of blacklisting, but because
they need to remain anonymous and stay out of jail for theft.

It's not about ANONIMITY, it's about FUNGIBILITY

You can try to be (somewhat) anonymous on the BTC network, but that doesn't mean the coins are fungible

Ask yourself...
If you earn a legal income in BTC, will you voluntarily mix your coin with criminals?

if bitcoin is not fungible, then it is not money, it is as simple as this
BTW, marshals sold tainted bitcoin from silk road and someone (silicon valley VCs, etc) bought them.
I don't think that this bitcoin is tainted anymore de facto, but if you look at these coins history, it would look pretty bad, right?
If bitcoin IS money, then it cannot be at fault what someone did with it any more than you cannot control what someone did with a $20 bill.

The Feds selling SR bitcoins for them means they can do what they want.

They can "wash clean these bitcoins because we are so holy in the bitcoin space"....that they were sold as a legitimate purchase.

In their eyes because they seized those coins because of illegal drug sales etc, by doing just that, now everyone knows those coins are coming from an official authority which by default "makes them clean". Yeah I know it's hypocrisy at its finest.