But that difference is one caused by all sorts of technological advancements, including completely unrelated advancements, and in my opinion is not a great excuse to preemptively treat the currencies differently. By your same reasoning, the advent of air travel made laundering cash easier.
>By your same reasoning, the advent of air travel made laundering cash easier.
That's true, though. Law enforcement agencies around the world had to account for plane flights as a potential way to trade illicit substances and gains from those substances. They had to hire experts in satellites and radar systems to track air vehicles carrying contraband when necessary.
And the same is true of cryptocurrencies. Law enforcement has to quickly adapt to the new medium and overcome extra hurdles.
I'm not discounting cryptocurrencies or air travel at all, I'm just saying that technological inventions often create many new intended and unintended externalities for all sorts of entities.
