Are sats purchased from the silk road seizure more special than other sats?
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1 sat=1 sat sir
Nah
Naw, but it's a good way for the feds to track them.
Want those silky sats.
This may come up in a supreme court case someday.
Yes, to some people. There are people who want bitcoin but are concerned about their sats being tagged as used in crimes by chainalysis. Some of them also don't care about KYC history of the coins they hold. To the overlap of that venn diagram, getting the coins straight from the US government is a perfect washing clean by their standard.
It doesn't tickle my fancy, but I can prove someone thinks they are special sats. Look up historical sale prices of #bitcoin at government auctions and compare to spot price that sale day. Auction coins usually fetch a significant premium to spot.
Good explanation. I can't at all see how that government is going to label specific sats as being tainted because they once passed through the wallet of a criminal, without also doing the same for USD. If you live in the USA and have any paper currency older than a couple years, it's almost certainly been used for something illegal.
90% have cocaine on them for starters.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-on-money-drug-found-on-90-of-us-bills
"My sats were cleaned and approved by US govs" 😅
It's just a big money laundering operation.
They're collectibles