just posted from the source at the bottom that even if you’re not involved in crime, you could still get hit if the BTC you hold was once linked to scams, hacks, or mixers. Regulators and exchanges are now tracking harder, coins can get flagged or even frozen.
BTC is supposed to be free and borderless, but with this kind of tracing it feels like they decide which coins are “clean” and which are not.
So, using unregulated exchanges just adds to the risk since they don’t screen coins properly, so you might end up holding tainted btc without even knowing.
so what do you think, just more fud to push people into regulated exchanges, or this is a real problem we need to worry about?
At Bitcoin protocol level, there is nothing as dirty Bitcoin, a Bitcoin in one wallet isn't superior to another, they are the same, that's what decentralization is about, if you can provide a valid signature to any public key, the network recognized you as the real owner of the Bitcoin in an address. However, law doesn't work in that manner, when something is stolen, law enforcement has to step in and that's why there onchain surveillance looking out for some crime scene, though the disadvantage of it is they do more than what crime study is about, they sell information and work with the government and that's brings us back to centralization Bitcoin is against.
Mosf exchanges, the centralized ones are business oriented and not about what consensus is about, if there is a reported stolen Bitcoin, they are seized immediately pending investigation or proof of ownership. I don't think you are likely going to buy a dirty Bitcoin on any centralized exchanges. Even in the decentralized exchanges, you are likely not to buy them if you know what's happening in the market. You just have to avoid anyone you see there is laundering of dirty coins at the exchange.
This is not the first time this FUD is flying around, unless they are cooking another trend