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.
Well how did do you think money laundering worked? Because it's same thing with money, gold or anything valuable. Even if you are not involved in a crime but somehow happen to get significant amount of something valuable, you need to explain the origins of it. That's FATF travel rule and i am not sure why people didn't take that seriously before they started to implement it.
Control is only getting stronger and i don't see any ways to fight against it, because even if you think you aren't doing anything wrong, that's the way fight against money laundering is done, and it's part of anti corruption as well.