Monero doesn't have tainted coins. Nobody is demonstrably showing path of Monero funds moving on the blockchain. I don't understand how you don't seem to understand this. If I deposit my Bitcoin on an exchange it is frozen and seized. If I deposit my Monero it is seamlessly sold. The behavior is observable by literally everyone who gets their Bitcoin regularly frozen and then switches to Monero.
When I receive Monero it remains fungible at any exchange that takes Monero. When I receive Bitcoin I have no assurances that is the case. I would have preferred to use Bitcoin forever, but unfortunately Core decided to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and all the time and resources on the absolute disaster that is LN instead of making Bitcoin fungible and useful from the ground up.
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The very fact that there were people hysterically throwing a fit over people using Bitcoin the wrong way all this past month shows that Bitcoin is not fungible. There is no using Monero the wrong way. Besides giving out your view key or private key, there's nothing that you can do that compromises your privacy.
Oh, because fiat is the attack vector not the coin you are buying. Fungibility markers only matter to your counterparty. The fiat being the control mechanism is so much more likely that I am kind of shocked this is still a talking point.
The whole Monero coin IS a tainted coin in the eyes of OFAC exchanges, do you see what I am saying? So, if we are talking about the same exchanges, Monero is no different than Bitcoin in this respect. If we are talking about exchanges that are non-compliant to OFAC, then there is no difference either.
This is why I don't understand this talking point. It doesn't make any sense.
I am very XMR bullish. But really the notion of "tainted coins" is moronic. First there is no such thing as a "coin" that can get any taint except by some bureaucrat claiming it had some connection to some wallet at some time that they think was involved in something they don't like. Never mind that most paper money in the world tests positive for cocaine. Never mind the big banks are caught again and again laundering criminal proceeds on MASSIVE scale and get a slap on the wrist.
But you are right. Transparent blockchains enable many evils.
