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?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/keep-your-assets-clean-risks-owning-dirty-crypto--pracin-2025-09-11/Potential losses and liability arising from dirty digital assets
Multiple government agencies, including OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) and FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network), are tasked with detecting or investigating crimes involving digital assets (including financial fraud, money laundering, confidence schemes, ransomware attacks, and even terrorism). Recent legislation has provided these agencies greater tools to conduct these investigations.
Dirty bitcoin" is a meme fabricated by the old system. There are no clean or dirty coins on the blockchain — all satoshis are equal. Exchanges and regulators spread this meme to keep users dependent on their fiat gateways.
However, the very character of Bitcoin is the opposite: neutral, permissionless, and borderless money. They can label all they want, but they cannot change that 1 BTC = 1 BTC. If anything, fear-mongering about "dirty coins" speaks to Bitcoin's strength — the protocol itself is impenetrable, and that is exactly why the world needs it.