[iramiller]

Doing crime on a system with a perfect immutable record doesn’t seem like a smart play to me.

As noted above the firms like chainalysis will continue to uncover and attribute all of the nodes in the graph. If you are taking 100s of thousands or more through fraud the incentives are aligned to see your crimes prosecuted.

[liveoneggs]

is it a crime if the smart contract acts as coded, but not necessarily as intended?

[TimJRobinson]

Yes. There are those who claimed they just performed a "highly profitable trading strategy", and are now sitting in jail.

[dafelst]

I think the main takeaway here is that in many cases wrt crypto, it is highly ambiguous on whether the actions you take are criminal or not.

[mypastself]

Agreed, especially given that frontrunning and similar techniques are almost inextricable from the technology’s default behavior.

However, actors other than law enforcement can also perform chain analysis, and you’d probably prefer to stay anonymous if you engage in such practices…

[pornel]

It can't be a crime. The contract is always executed exactly as written.