This asset forfeiture along blockchains seems like charging a restaurant for serving gangsters because their customer paid using the proceeds of crime. Except with a blockchain, it becomes like seizing assets as compensation from a vinyard that supplied the wine to the restaurant who served the gangsters, and maybe even garnishing the wages of the grape pickers to be sure.<p>It's stolen money, and how can anyone be against stopping crime, except the definition of crime always seems to expand. The trouble with "justice" is it is a good for which demand is infinite, with the false implication that the price paid for it is never too high. I'd be wary of these technologies.
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One question I have is, what could they have done to avoid such tracking?<p>I thought there were more secure coins, token remixers, etc., and that if you were determined and not stuck with one exchange or (say) Bitcoin, you could muddy the waters pretty well.