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.
There is no such thing as “dirty” or “clean” bitcoin every bitcoin is the same. You can send and receive any bitcoin. If you use bitcoin for what it’s meant for as money a medium of exchange it circulates within the economy, and it’s hard for an ordinary user to know exactly where that bitcoin came from. For example, if you pay for dinner at a restaurant, the restaurant owner cannot know where exactly that bitcoin came from.Or if you are paid for some kind of work.You don’t know where that bitcoin came from.
However, if you use bitcoin for speculation and want to exchange it for fiat currency on exchanges, then problems can arise. If the bitcoin comes from theft or extortion, it’s easier to track than dollar bills.
In my opinion, this is just another FUD spread by shitcoin scammers. This FUD comes from Monero shitcoiners trying to promote their shitcoin, but probably also from central bankers who fear bitcoin could become a widely accepted medium of exchange, so they spread these kinds of stories.