> Cash has the advantage that most of us don't have access to a database of serial numbers and the movement of individual bills can be difficult to prove (how many people held this bill before you got it?)

true that... UTXOs are more tainted, by construction.

denlillaapan

 I think/suspect it difficult for me to offload the bitcoin in return

Isn't this the whole problem? Sure it's no big if you know you have a trading partner who will accept the coins. the issue is how confident can you be in finding such a partner given that the coins come from a well known stolen address?

Cash has the advantage that most of us don't have access to a database of serial numbers and the movement of individual bills can be difficult to prove (how many people held this bill before you got it?)

AskSN

bitcoin

Would you accept a payment with an input from a stolen utxo?

wackster

> IDGAF *unless* I think/suspect it difficult for me to offload the bitcoin in return

Isn't this the whole problem? Sure it's no big if you know you have a trading partner who will accept the coins. the issue is how confident can you be in finding such a partner given that the coins come from a well known stolen address?

Cash has the advantage that most of us don't have access to a database of serial numbers and the movement of individual bills can be difficult to prove (how many people held this bill before you got it?)