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that could be an interesting vector, don't the feds have shit load of BTC from various busts? could they dump a billion into the wallet to make it impossible to launder?


They took a crapton in the Silk Road bust - and then several of the cops involved were charged with then stealing some of the seized BTC

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-silkroad-idUSKB...


I don't think atomic swaps need to be the full contents of a wallet. It means "atomic" in the usual transactional sense, not that it's all-or-nothing per address.

But even still, the idea to prevent money laundering by sending orders of magnitude more BTC than the initial scam... bold idea.




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