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hnthrow1010 | 3 years ago

By association, yes. All cryptocurrency and "defi" ostensibly has that goal. What is it exactly you think they're trying to "decentralize"?

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sneed-oil|3 years ago

Transactions and storage of money. You could also argue that artists who sell their artworks for huge sums of money are associating themselves to money laundering.

hnthrow1010|3 years ago

Transactions and storage of money are already decentralized, through the traditional finance system that connects at least thousands of banks and payment processors and other financial institutions. So it can't be that.

>You could also argue that artists who sell their artworks for huge sums of money are associating themselves to money laundering.

Yes, that's why transactions for those huge sums are subject to AML laws.