Paypal mycash (ect) cards will eventually go bad if their balance is not redeemed and cashed out in time, and whoever is cashing them out is taking on huge risks of being implicated in a number of potential crimes.
Bitcoin is not going to go bad and is fungible. If you ever give any less value to bitcoin because it can be traced back to a scammer (or can be traced back to....any other reason) then bitcoin is destined to fail
I get what you're saying but I still don't see the difference between knowingly buying and selling stolen BTC and buying and selling carded paypal mycash. Instead of mycash, let's say stolen electronics or something else that cannot be traced back?
IMO there is no difference but wanted to see what the rest of you think about it.
Stolen paypal mycash cards, stolen electronics and stolen most other things can pretty much always be traced back to you. For all of the above you either need to sell to someone else who must cash out within a certain amount of time before they lose their entire value (in the case of mycash cards), or generally need to physically meet someone (in the case of stolen electronics) - which would potentially trace the stolen goods back to you.
With the case of bitcoin on the other hand, it will not go bad, and you can easily hide your association with the address in question very cheaply - I would say that for ~$0.40 worth of bitcoin (max), for all intensive purposes you would not be able to trace the connection of the addresses my coins ended up to marc's address if I were to purchase 40
BTC of his.
The main reason why I would not do business with the OP is because it is pretty clear to me that the OP one and the same of Marcchernandez and as a result he will likely make a solid attempt of scamming me, even with the use of escrow.
If however there was a more faint connection between the address the OP signed from and Marcchernandez (for example only one or two transactions - indicating only that they have at least done business with each other ) then you should still trade with extreme caution but the risk of a scam attempt against you is not as great and you should either have your trading partner send first or use a well experienced escrow agent.
