This is exactly why fungibility is so important, and taint is a very dangerous attack on Bitcoin's existence. Bitcoin is electronic cash, and like cash, it doesn't matter who used the money before you. Whoever signs the transaction is the owner, that's how Bitcoin works.
Well I mean these services need to decide, either they accept funds with a criminal history or they do not. In other words. Either they close down their service or not. Because if they decide to crack down funds with criminal history, they may as well seize and block every single transfer received and I should report every single Bitcoin transfer they make to my account to authorities as having a record of criminal history too.
Fixed Float, how many transactions prior to mine do they go back through and verify to qualify me as a Bitcoin owner suspicious of criminal activity? 2? 5? 25 or all the way back to the mined block? I bet if I do another transaction on Fixed Float and go all the way block to where that amount came from, I would find at least one suspicious transaction. Does that make Fixed Float legally liable for all that suspicious history?
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